Mission

The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) is a year-round non-profit arts organization founded by Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro

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, Jane Rosenthal

Jane Rosenthal

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, and Craig Hatkoff

Craig Hatkoff

Craig M. Hatkoff is an American real estate investor and philanthropist from New York City. Along with his wife Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro, he co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Institute in 2002...

 in the wake of September 11, 2001. TFI's mission is to empower filmmakers through grants and professional development, and train the media-makers of the future by bringing film into the classroom, developing young audiences for independent film, and promoting career development.

Youth Programming

TFI is the City of New York Department of Education’s partner for the filmmaking component of the DOE’s Summer Arts Institute. TFI served as the primary cultural partner to develop the DOE’s Blueprint for the Teaching and Learning of the Moving Image. Released in October 2009, the Blueprint is a curriculum guide for the study of film, television, and animation from grades K – 12 and sets benchmarks for a city-wide standard for teaching media arts.

TFI's youth programs include Tribeca Teaches: Films in Motion, an in-school and after-school filmmaking residency

Artist in residence

Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities allow visiting artists to stay and work so that they may apply singular focus to their art practice....

; the Tribeca Youth Screening Series, a year-round program that provides students and teachers with access to relevant films and helps integrate film into the classroom curricula; Tribeca Film Fellows, a pre-professional development program that brings twenty NYC high-school students behind-the-scenes of the Tribeca Film Festival; the Summer Arts Institute; and Our City, My Story, an annual showcase of youth-made films.

Artist & Filmmaker Support

TFI has six artist support programs, which all have an open call for submissions:

Tribeca All Access promotes the careers of directors and screenwriters from diverse backgrounds through professional guidance and with seed grants of $10,000;

The TFI Documentary Fund provides professional guidance and grants of between $10,000 and $50,000 to character-driven documentaries;

The Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund provides grants of $10,000 - $25,000 to feature-length documentaries which highlight and humanize issues of social importance;

The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund provides grants of $10,000 - $40,000 to support feature filmmaking that explores scientific and technological themes;

The TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund provides grants of $10,000 to documentary filmmakers working in Latin America

Latin America

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The TFI Reframe Collection is an online portal where independent filmmakers can sell their educational, experimental and hard-to-find work.

TFI administers the Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, an annual award of $25,000 for mid-career visual artists who are nominated and selected by a special committee.

Board of directors

The Tribeca Film Institute Board of Directors is composed of Robert De Niro, Co-Chair, Jane Rosenthal, Co-Chair, Alberta Arthurs, Vice Chair, Serena Altschul

Serena Altschul

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, Martin Edelman, Eli Evans, Craig Hatkoff, Lisa Hsia, Jennifer Maguire Isham, Sheila Nevins, Norman Pearlstine

Norman Pearlstine

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, Sam Pollard

Sam Pollard

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, Laurie Racine, Scott Rechler, John G. Roche, Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...

, Judy Tabb, Jonathan Tisch

Jonathan Tisch

Jonathan M. Tisch has been Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels since 1989, as well as being Co-Chairman of the Board and Member of the Office of the President of Loews Corporation, its parent company. He is the son of Founder Robert Tisch....

, Todd Wagner

Todd Wagner

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, and Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright is an American film, television, and stage actor and film producer.-Early life:Wright was born in Washington, D.C. to a mother who worked as a customs lawyer and a father who died when he was a child...

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