Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program Celebrates 10 Years of Supporting Female and Nonbinary Artists

On a Thursday Evening in the Penthouse of New York’s Greenwich Hotel, Jane Rosenthal Soda in Front of A Small Audionce – A Mix of Emerging Filmmakers, Program ALUMers, Jury. Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program.

With the room packed in almost shoulder-to-tooulder, and on the heels of a welcome message from bryce norbitz, VP of Tribeca Studios and Artist Development at Tribement Program that is able to “keep pushing forward opportunities for women, non-binaary filmmakers in Our Industry,” Especialyly WHEN “IT’s A Challenge.” Rosenthal took A Moment to Remind the Five Filmmakers and Their Teams Participating in the Program of Whaty’d Already Achieved Just by Being in the Room.

“No matter what happers, you’re all part of the tribeca through her lens family, and you’re all winners,“ she told the Crowd. “I BELIEVE ALL OF YOUR FILMS WILL GET MADE. THAT TENDS TO HAPPEN.”

That vote of confident was quickly followeded by a note of WHY The PROgram – now 10 years in – remains SO Important, Particularly Amid Current Industry, Societal and Political.

“I have a horrible habit of reading News Alerts, SO while I wasn’t going to say anything at all politically about free speech or is [to Jimmy Kimmel]And i’m Really Not Going to Say It, i’m Saying It, “Rosenthal Shared with The Small Penthouse Gathering.“ On in the Ice Detention Center that’s Just A FEW BLOKS FROM HERE. ”

“IT MAKES ME FEEL We Have to Use Our Voices Even More and We Have to Be Tongher Even More and Find Ways that We Will Defend Our Free Speech,“ She continued. “SO MANY OF YOUR Stories That You’ve Told Are About That, And I AppLaud You All. I’d Like to Raise A Glass to You And to Thank Chanel For Tese Extraordinary 10 Years. Be this Kind of Community and Program. ”

Soon after, this year’s jurors kaitlyn dever, Meghann Fahy, Allison Janney, Payal Kapadia, Issa Rae and Jenny Slate Award Prize for their short film, Strangers. The Film, WHICH WAS PITCHED TO THE JURY ALONGSide Four Other Projects, Will Receive Full Finance to Produce The Short with Support from Tribeca Studios, While The Remaining TEAMINING TEMS They Were All Chosen From A Pool of Over 600 Invited or Recommeded Filmmakers This Year.

Dube and Evangelista, Who Have Been Creative Partners for A Decade Since Meeting at Nyu and Already Have Feature Ambitions for The Short, Told The Hollywood Reporter that it was an experience in whol they felt Support and Seen.

“IT WAS MAGICAL. IT’s Been Great. It’s Been Scary. It Feels Like Surfing a Wave for Three Days. But We Were Surrounded by People Who Just Want To Help Exce They can, ”SAID DUBE. “I Think All The Projects Have Been Preparing for This Moment for A Long Time and We Felt Well Receive and Had the Complete Attmentation of People That It Long Takes A Time To.

Adeded Evangelista, “Tribeca Knows How Diflicult It Is To Get Access to Be ABLE TO MAKE The Kinds Of Films That We All Want To Make. IT’s Something Is Quite Overlebered For them.

In the lead-up to the Announcement, Janney Descripted the Selection Process as “An incredibly, incredibly difficult Decision for US. on a road to meet and afftect audiences. ” The reminder jurors each chimed in, adding that all the projects were a “Great Reminder of the Beauty of Art And Progress, and It Felt Really Invigating at A Time That’s Dificult In. Winning Pitch Was A Story Both “Nuanced and Complex, Making US All Question Ourselves and Our Position in Society and in a World That Reduces People to Their Immediate Identity.

For dever, joining the throgh her lens’ 10-year anniversary Program as a juror folllows a career that started as a girl and child actor who “didn’t know how, b for mys Especialy in the Industry. ” She have since gotten to work with filmmakers like kathryn bigelow, but was was also just 21 and two days Into filming Netflix’s Unbelievable WHEN The #METOO MOVEMENT KICKED OFF. “Being in this Group of People and On the Jury Is a Really Big Deal, and It Means a Lot to Me to Be Chosen in this Way. I’ve Been to this Event Before. I’ve Admired All. Thr.

The Through Her Lens Program Was Carred Out Accident of One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-One-Sesions of The Filmmmmakers in Wich Each of The Five Mentors Discused The Detaers in Detail, Folowed Followers in Detail, Followers in Detail, Followers in Deti-Filled The Girates Discused Their Pro. Extension Question-and-Amswer session with all filmmakers focused on composition and Score with Laura Karpman; Filmmaking and Navigating the Industry with Av Rockwell; Filmning and A Career WalkthROUGH with LUCY LIU; Production with pamela abdy; and Costume Design With Colleen Atwood. Mentors Included Sarah Paulson, Riva Marker, Frida Perez, Constance Tsang and Odessa Young.

“Whaty Were Asking Me SomeTimes Was, ‘What do you see the page that isn isn’ that that’s that you wels there? What if this Came Across Your Desk?” Served as A Mentor to this Year’s Through Her Lens Cohort. “They are investigating What Itans to Be ALIVE, AND they’re doing it by by way and your ears to. ”

The Through Her Lens Experience Began With A LUNCHEON AT LOCANDA VERDE ON TUESDAY, WHICH FEATURED The Filmmakers, Press, Jury Members and Mentors TESSA Thompson, Who Now Serve Alongside Rockwell, Karpman, Jane Fonda, Patty Jenkins and Kerry Washington to Help Advance The Program Through New Collaborations and Consul. The Kick-Off Luncheon Also Featured Majoor Industry Names Including Katie Couric, Lily Allen, Mariska Hargitay, Mara Brock Akil and Mary Harron.

That level of name recognition in supeport of a pipeline Program is rare even in Hollywood, But It Is One Way Way Through Her Lens Can Distinctively Help “enrich. Very Talented Women and Nonbinary People, ”SAID RAE. “The System Is Flawed. There’s a Lot of Quality Work, There’s A Lot of Un-Quality Work, and SomeTimes You Do Need Kind of A Filtration System. and Seeing the work that have come out of it-it is essential to see the unneseen and to give a CO-SIGN THAT The INDUSTRY CAN LOOK AT TO LIKE, ‘THIS IS A PERSON WORTH TAKING A SHT. And the Range of Talent Is Just Incredible, HONESTLY, SO I’M SO GLAD IT EXISTS. ”

On the Carpet, Rosenthal Told Thr That Early On in the Program of Existence, “You Were Explaing What It Was and You Were Asking Favors.” In the 10 years Since, The Producer Is Now Fielding Requests to Participate by Hollywood’s Biggest and MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN AND NONBINARY CREATIVES. “People to be part of this community and it’s intenation. It’s an intental community because people gettting out of it,” she added.

Over The Last Decade, Through Her Lens Has Supported Upports of 50 Films As Well As Hundreds of Women and Nonbinary Writers, Producers and Directors Deals and Accollades Across Various Platforms. Alongside Bringing on Mentors Like Biglow, Catherine Hardwike, Rashida Jones, Leslye Headland, Effie T. Brown, Glenn Close, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Ilene Chaik Program has supeported the work of creation like rockwell (A Thousand and One Years) and nikyatu jusu (Nanny).

“IT REALLY SHOWS THAT WHAT TRIBECA AND CHANEL Are Doing Is Working,“ SAID FHY. “I THINK NOW more thaning Ever, It Makes Us Feel Hopeful, and I Think That’s Something We Talked A Lot About Toiday WHEN WE WE WEERE IN MOR Delibration. It’s More Important. Inspire Women and Nonbinary People to Continue. ”

On the rooftop of the Greenwich Hotel Thursday Night, The Tribeca Co-FOUNDER NOTED that Part of How The Program, WHICH She CO-FOUNDED COMPLETH AROLA Its Core. “WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT YOU HAVE TO DO INDUSTRY TO GET A PROJECT MADE, YOU’RE ALWAYS HAVING TO GO Pitch. Explained. “IT WAS A COMBINATION OF WHAT A GROUP OF US CAME UP WITH IN TERMS OF, How DO YOU HELP SomeBody? And You’re Always in Front of A Jury Somewhere.”

“Paula Weinstein and I Have Been Producers Who Have Had Doors Slammed In Our Faces, Projects We Wanted to Make for Years and Years, and Were Pushing. She Continued.

For LIU, THROUGH HER LENS ‘PROGRAM PROCESS ISN’T “NECESARY About Winning. It’s Really About Being in The ROOM AND LEARNING. COMPETION IS ALWAYS GOING TO AMTHING THAT HAPPING THAT HAPING Important to Know that It Shouldn’T be Something Should Lead You. Better. ”

Rosenthal also Points to the Program CONSISTENCY, Made Possible by the Support of Those Like Rebekah McCabe and Chanel, As Well As The Commitments of Program. “Especialy in the TESE Times, WHEN WE DON’T SUPPORT The Arts in this Country, WHEN WE’RE CENSORING The Arts in this Country – We’re Censoring and Erasting Our Culture In this Country.

“We All Get Stronger, SO Our Program Gets Stronger. Then You Have People Like [co-chair and CEO of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group] PAM ABDY Come, and She’ll Look at Everi One of Tese Filmmakers. Kerry Washington Talks About Somebody She Met HERE WHO THEN BECOME A Writer On One of Her Shows, “Rosenthal Explained.“ WitH this Program With Other People That Have Been In The Program Before. Even the Advisory Committees Stay Connected. No Matter Where You Are In Your Career, You Can Turn to Somebody, Even Who You’re Not Feeling As Hot As You Were. ”

Across The Program Three Days, Rosenthal Repeatedly Emphasized That “In The Beginning We Thought We Were Building A Program. Ten Years Later, It’s A MOVEMENT.” Successful Movements, She Acknowledged to Thr On Thursday , don’t just share ideologic goals, but challenge members to refine and grow in their shared Vision and Values. With Through Her Lens, they do so with a sensse of safety. “IT’s About Being Together Where We Feel Like We’re in A SAFE SPACE to TAKE CARE OF EACH Other,“ The Tribeca Co-FOUNDER TOLD Thr. “And you’ve go to be able to push. But some of the more difficult films i’ve done have comekause the comedian needs to be safe to be ab.”

For Actor, Writer, Director, Producer and Comedian Ilana Glazer, Showing Up for An Event That Safely Center Regular People and Artists Can Speak Up and Make their Support Clear.

“We’re in a moment WHERE AUTHORITARIANISM IS QUICKLY DESCENTING UPON US AND I THINK The Majority of American People’s Human Rights Are In Danger. I Always Go Back to What Nina. Reflect the Times, ”they say. “Just Showing Up – For Activist Events, For Artist Events, For Your Community – Is The Way to DO IT RIGHT NOU We Are Today Is Just As Important. ”

The Safety and Rights of Women and Nonbinary People in and Outside of Hollywood have been precarious, but increasing so for Other Groups Over The Last Few Weeks. Still, Rosenthal Isnning in Her Support of Artists and Stories from WitHin These Communities, Regardless of Where The Rest of the Industry May Being.

“We’re not about putting skuare pegs into skuare holes. We’ve Never Been About that. It’s about how’s you push Those boundaries Program. “I will Continue to Support Women and Diverse Communities to the End of the Earth. Certainly [Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert DeNiro] And I DID THAT BEFORE WE Started the Festival, and We’ll Continue It Long After. ”

With 10 years of throgh her lens under her Belt, rosenthal said this kind of work remains her purpose, with the hope that the program of COMPLELY SURE WHAT THAT FUTURE OF THROUGH HER LENS Wuld Look Like.

“There is someting about how this has grown so organical and authentically. Ie been overwhelmed by the people that coming to this Program Who Want to Beal. It Will Be Incumbent On this Community to Come Together and Say, How Do We Grow The Next Stage of It? ” She told Thr. “BUT RIGHT NOW, IN This Pretty Gorgeous Place to Be Sitting, Right There [points across the skyline] You’ve Got An Ice Denation Center, so is Hard to Think About Literally Anything Else But Right Now. ”