Tribeca Festival Sets 2025 Dates, New Creators Forum

The Tribeca Festival’s 24th edition will unspool June 4-15, 2025 in NYC and submissions are now open as the fest announced a new Creators Forum and some expanded eligibility rules.

The Creators Forum is a multi-day summit set within the festival and designed for the broader filmmaking community with industry leaders, roundtables offering intimate group mentorship on topics ranging from festival strategy to distribution to case studies with key learnings from some of the biggest indie success stories as well as a range of networking opportunities

Tribeca’s short films program has expanded eligibility to projects screened in New York or online for out-of-competition consideration. And its Creators Market’s Works-in-Progress showcase will accept submissions from filmmakers with work in post-production. They can submit to preview their project for an invitation-only industry audience at the Festival in June.

“For over two decades, Tribeca has supported thousands of emerging and underrepresented artists, many of whom have gone on to become critically acclaimed, award-winning filmmakers. This tradition continues today with the launch of our new Creators Forum,” said Tribeca CEO and co-founder Jane Rosenthal. “As the industry evolves, Tribeca constantly seeks ways to make it more accessible to artists from all backgrounds, communities, and disciplines.”

Tribeca 2024 was a record-breaking year with over 13,000 submissions and nearly 600 events for more than 145,000 attendees.