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Tribeca Fest co-founder celebrates women filmmakers

/ 04:16 PM April 27, 2019

NEW YORK — The co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival called on women filmmakers to keep building on the momentum of the #MeToo and Time’s Up era.

Jane Rosenthal

Jane Rosenthal attends the AT&T Presents: Untold Stories luncheon, in conjunction with the Tribeca Film Festival, at Thalassa on Monday, April 22, 2019, in New York. Image: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

This year for the first time, half of the films in Tribeca’s competition categories are directed or co-directed by women. That’s up from 44 percent last year.

Jane Rosenthal, who co-founded the festival with Robert De Niro, told attendees at the Chanel Tribeca Women Filmmakers Luncheon Friday that if a window has now been opened, “it’s only because of all of us that that window is going to stay open,” and that necessary change will be made.

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Rosenthal told the crowd that they “cannot be the exception. We have to be the norm in every business.” NVG

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