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Live from Tribeca: Podcast Interviews, Talks, and Performances

This year’s Tribeca Festival podcast lineup brings masterful interviewers together with a who’s who of guests

The official lineup for Audio Storytelling at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX, is here! From June 4 - 15, some of the biggest names in Hollywood will sit down with esteemed journalists and podcasters to discuss everything from Ponzi schemes to career retrospectives to the importance of public radio.

These are one-of-a-kind live events for one night only… you’ll want to listen in. Check out what’s on below.

Talk Easy with Sam Rockwell

Saturday, June 14 @ 5:00 PM, SVA Theatre

The Interview with Sandra Oh

Thursday, June 12 @ 6:00 PM, Indeed Theater at Spring Studios

Join New York Times Opinion host Lulu Garcia-Navarro and special guest Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy, Killing Eve) at the Tribeca Festival for the first-ever live episode of The Interview, a podcast from The New York Times featuring in-depth conversations with the world’s most fascinating people across culture, politics, business, sports and beyond.

Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story with Sebastian Maniscalco & Jamie-Lynn-Sigler

June 13 @ 5:00 PM, OKX Theatre at BMCC TPAC

Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story, an Apple Original podcast, explores the rise and fall of Charles Ponzi, a broke immigrant in Boston who became one of America’s most infamous men — practically overnight. In just nine months, he upended the world of finance and etched his name into history by perfecting one of the most notorious scams ever: the Ponzi scheme.

Join us for this live show and World Premiere with comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Maya Lau and Will Malnati.

Death Sex & Money with Allison Williams

June 11 @ 8:30 PM, SVA Theatre

Anna Sale is back for a brand new live-from-Tribeca episode of Slate’s beloved podcast, Death, Sex & Money. Known for her thoughtful and empathetic interviews, Anna will sit down with award-winning actor Allison Williams (Get Out, Girls, M3GAN) to talk about her career and explore the complexities that come with growing up in the spotlight.

This American Life with Ira Glass and Ira Madison III: Excellence in Audio Journalism Gala

June 10 @ 8:00PM, The Indeed Theater at Spring Studios

The Tribeca Festival recognizes the vital impact of audio journalism and celebrates an exemplum of Excellence in Audio Journalism. This year, Tribeca will honor the iconic podcast and landmark public radio show, This American Life, created and hosted by Ira Glass.

Glass will co-host this special episode with podcaster and author Ira Madison III as part of the Opening Night event for the Festival’s Audio Storytelling program. Join both Iras live on a tour through highlights of This American Life’s 30 years on the air.

The Memory Palace with Carrie Coon and Lili Taylor

June 13 @ 8:30 PM, SVA Theatre

For sixteen years, Nate DiMeo has been telling singular stories about America's past on the beloved podcast The Memory Palace. Now, he’s bringing these stories of our collective past to life in The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past, from Random House. And for one-night-only, acclaimed actors Carrie Coon (The White Lotus) and Lili Taylor (Say Anything) will join DiMeo to read excerpts in this special live show at the Tribeca Festival.

Tribeca Festival 2025 Free Festival events to level up your career!

Free Festival Programming

You don’t have to spend a dime to get high-level insights from industry pros at this year’s Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX. That’s right – we’re also offering free panels and programming all Festival long. Connect with storytellers from every aspect of production and get all the tips, tricks, and insider info you need to take your project to the next level.

Here are just a few of the free events we’ll be running June 4 - 15 at Tribeca Festival 2025:

Authenticity On and Off Screen: Telling Stories That Inspire
June 6 @ 12:00 PM, AT&T Untold Stories Lounge

Discover how to bring your full self into your work—and why it matters. In this candid fireside chat with Rachel Brosnahan and Matthew Lopez, you’ll gain insight into how bilingual, bi-cultural, and boundary-breaking narratives can resonate across audiences, challenge outdated molds, and open doors for the next generation of creators from two acclaimed actor-producers who have lived it firsthand.

Game Changers from the Field to the Frame
June 7 @ 11:00 AM, AT&T Untold Stories Lounge

Join producer and director Shirley Williams in conversation with US Paralympian Scout Bassett for a discussion on the power of connection, community, and mentorship in fostering and amplifying stories — both on and off the field.

Follow the Funding with Documentary Producers
June 8 @ 1:00 PM, AT&T Untold Stories Lounge

In our third installment of a conversation series co-hosted by the Documentary Producers' Alliance (DPA), we will tackle the topic of funding with producers from this year’s Festival official selections, touching on both the complexities of finding funding and what you are actually funding.

Building New York's Creative Future
June 9 @ 12:30 PM, Indeed Lounge

So much of how the future is decided and defined is by the voices of the community that inherit it. And it takes work to build and cultivate community. Join us as we chat with these amazing local organizations that are doing the work of building up the creative community here in New York City and beyond.

Giving the Lion a Pen: The Power of Funding
June 14 @ 12:30 PM, Indeed Lounge

The old proverb goes, "Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter". It is time to give the lion a pen, and the way to do that is with funding. Join us for a discussion about the importance of funding and providing resources for stories from the African diaspora with some of the organizations doing the work.

Fireside Chat on Costume Design with Jeriana San Juan and Kasia Walicka-Maimone
June 14 @ 2:00 PM, AT&T Untold Stories Lounge

Sit down with Emmy and Guild-nominated costume designer Jeriana San Juan and 2025 Tribeca selection The Gilded Age’s Kasia Walicka-Maimone for a discussion about the art of costume design and how costuming can elevate your next project.

Our slate of free programming will help you take your career to the next level and tell your story in the best way possible. But wait… there’s more!

Calling all emerging entertainment creators! For the third year, Canva and Tribeca are partnering to empower independent writers, directors, and producers. The program launches June 10 at Tribeca Festival with an in-person workshop featuring Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lawrence Sher. Virtual workshops throughout the summer will build essential design skills. The program concludes with five $20,000 Kickstart Awards and support from Tribeca Studios to help creators further develop their work.

Click here link to register and learn more!

What to See at Tribeca 2025

Meet the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival Jurors

See all the jurors

The Jury is In!

You’ve seen the Festival line-up; now it’s time to reveal the jury. These industry leaders and creative visionaries will be deliberating on and presenting laurels to the top projects across 17 competition categories from film to games, audio storytelling to TV, and more.

Judging films in competition will be visionaries ranging from Colson Whitehead to Mira Sorvino to Matthew Broderick and Art Linson to Ilana Glazer — and those are just a few names on the list. The likes of Annie Murphy, Jennifer Beals, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Gina Rodriguez, Stephanie Hsu, and more will deliberate on the Nora Ephron Award, the 2025 Viewpoints Competition, and the AT&T Untold Stories Greenlight Committee.

Winners will be announced at the Tribeca Festival Awards Ceremony on June 12th.

But don’t just celebrate the winning programs — see them for yourself.

Our Festival Favorites Pass provides ticketless access to all Award Winner and Back By Popular Demand screenings on Sunday, June 15 as we bring back the most popular programs of the Fest, along with the award winners. For just $60, you can watch as many movies as you can schedule into one day.

51st Annual American Music Awards on Monday, May 26th on CBS

The 51st Annual American Music Awards will take place on May 26, 2025, at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Hosted by Jennifer Lopez and will air for the firs time on CBS, and live streaming on Paramount +. Kendrick Lamar leads every with 10 nominations. Janet Jackson will perform and receive the Icon Award and legend Rod Steward will also perform and receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Netflix Kicks Off Two-Week Citywide FYSEE LA Festival with Special Events for “Black Mirror,” “The Diplomat,” “Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney,” and More

On Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18, Netflix kicked off FYSEE LA, a two-week citywide festival celebrating Emmy contenders across Los Angeles. There were standing room only events for Black Mirror, The Diplomat and Everybody's Live with John Mulaney featuring series stars such as Will Ferrell, Paul Giamatti, Allison Janney, Rashida Jones, John Mulaney, Keri Russell, Tracee Ellis Ross, and many more.

Netflix also hosted creative conversations with ground-breaking creators, writers, directors and actors from hit Netflix series such as Forever, The Four Seasons, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Nobody Wants This, The Residence, Simone Biles Rising, and Zero Day.

Will Ferrell and Harper Steele headlined a Netflix Documentary Spotlight Event, and the first of Netflix's LA Screening Series kicked off with "Action Night" featuring director Q&As for Rebel Ridge and American Primeval.

‘SPLITSVILLE’S World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival: In Theaters August 22, 2025

Adria Arjona, Kyle Marvin and Dakota Johnson at the After Party for the World Premiere of Splitsville in Cannes on May 19, 2025

In attendance where Dakota Johnson (Producer/Cast), Adria Arjona (Executive Producer/Cast), Kyle Marvin (CoWriter/Producer/Cast), Michael Angelo Covino (Director/Co-Writer/Producer/Cast), Emily Korteweg (Producer), Ryan Heller (Producer), Jeff Deutchman (Producer), Ro Donnelly (Producer), Samantha Racanelli (Producer)

Additional Attendees showing support:
Jason Momoa, Alexander Skarsgård, Stellan Skarsgård
Sean Baker, Jeremy O. Harris, Jasmin Savoy Brown Eva Victor

Jason Momoa and Adria Arjona at the After Party for the World Premiere of Splitsville in Cannes on May 19, 2025

Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino at the After Party for the World Premiere of Splitsville in Cannes on May 19, 2025

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Review: When it is all on the Line!

Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Writers: Bruce Geller, Erik Jendresen, Christopher McQuarrie
Based on Mission: Impossible by Bruce Geller
Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Rating: PG-13
Country: United States
Language: English

When it is all on the line and all on your Shoulders!

Director Christopher McQuarrie’s new thriller Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning brings it all together as Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), IMF agent and team leader, comes back on board to help the United States save the world.

As the sequel to Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, The Final Reckoning does an excellent job of tying everything together and giving a good understanding of how and why Ethan is in the position he is in.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a good film with a lot of entertaining action scenes. Especially Ethan and Gabriel stunts running and jumping from and to airplanes, hanging off airplanes.

Christopher McQuarrie’s director has brough the Mission Impossible franchise to an incredible eighth installment. Cinematographer Fraser Taggart helps create a formidable setting providing compelling scenes in the film. Writers Bruce Geller, Erik Jendresen, Christopher McQuarrie created a script with unpredictability and credible dialogue and plots. Eddie Hamilton’s editing allows for the effortless flow from scene to scene. Max Aruj’s music works well with the scenes adding to the suspense and intrigue of the movie. The lighting and ambience help to create a bleak and hopeless situation, providing gloom and doom to back-up the gravity of the situations.

The film locations add another level of excitement as you watch Ethan run for his and the life of the world through Malta, Norway, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. And having the opportunity to actual shoot on the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush in Apulia, Italy certainly helps carry the story along.

Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning puts Ethan in the middle of the bullseye and he puts his life all on the line to help save the United States and the world. A very entertaining movie that keeps you engaged. A film worth seeing.

With his capable team in place, that includes Grace (Hayley Atwell), an ally of Ethan; Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) a computer technician and Ethan’s best friend, Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), an IMF technical field agent; Gabriel (Esai Morales), an assassin and who was the go-between for the Entity. Paris (Pom Clementine), a French assassin who helps Ethan to kill Gabriel; Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny), the director of the CIA from Dead Reckoning, Erika Sloane (Angela Bassett), former CIA director, now President of the United States; Serling Bernstein, (Holt McCallany), Secretary of Defense, Walters (Janet McTeer), Secretary of State; General Sidney (Nick Offerman), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Rear Admiral Neely (Hannah Waddingham), the head of an aircraft carrier; Captain Bledsoe (Tramell Tillman), the commander of a rescue submarine; Jasper Briggs/Jim Phelps Jr: (Shea Whigham), A US Intelligence agent assigned to track down Ethan and his team. Son of Ethan's former team leader turned nemesis, Jim Phelps; Greg Tarzan Davis as Theo Degas, A US Intelligence agent; Richards (Charles Parnell), the DNI, and head of the NRO; Angstrom (Mark Gatiss), Head of the NSA; William Donloe (Rolf Saxon), a CIA analyst who was last seen in the first film being transferred to Alaska; Tapeesa (Lucy Tulugarjuk), Donloe's wife; Kodiak (Katy O'Brian), a naval soldier on board the submarine; Pills (Stephen Oyoung as), a naval soldier on board the submarine; (Mariela Garriga as), a woman from Ethan and Gabriel's past, seen in a brief flashback; Captain Koltsov (Pasha D. Lychnikoff); Colonel Burdick (Tommie Earl Jenkins.)

United States Release Date: May 23, 2025
Run time: 2 hours 50 minutes
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Producer: Producers: Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie
Production companies: Paramount Pictures, Skydance, TC Productions
Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen
Cinematographer: Fraser Taggart
Editor: Eddie Hamilton
Music: Max Aruj

Richard Linklater’s NOUVELLE VAGUE: View New Trailer

Director: Richard Linklater
Screenplay: Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson, Holly Gent
Starring: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin
Producers: Michèle Halberstadt, Laurent Pétin

"This is the story of Godard making ”Breathless,” told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless.”

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The Tribeca Festival Storytellers Series

Celebrate stories with stars who bring them to life

In our Tribeca Storytellers Series, we sit down with the superstar creatives who help bring our favorite stories to life and hear how they did it, what makes them tick, and their views on the creative process.

Not sure which of our Tribeca Storytellers events is for you? From actors to comedians to politicians, this year's lineup has a conversation for everyone.

GJim Gaffigan with Michael Ian Black

Thursday, June 5 @ 6 PM, The Indeed Theater at Spring Studios

Comedian Jim Gaffigan has done it all. He’s been nominated for Grammys, written two best-selling books, won three Emmys, and performed for sold-out crowds around the world. To kick off our Storytellers Series, he’ll be sitting down with fellow comedian Michael Ian Black to discuss everything they know about bringing laughter to your screens.

Mark Ronson

Saturday, June 7 @ 6 PM, The Indeed Theater at Spring Studios

Nine-time Grammy, Academy Award, and Golden Globe-winning musician Mark Ronson has worked with Hollywood’s biggest names and scored some of its biggest films. Now, he’s sitting down with us for an evening of insights, inspiration and to discuss how music can help tell stories in a whole new way.

Sean Penn with Kaitlan Collins

Sunday, June 8 @ 3 PM, The Indeed Theater at Spring Studios

Two-time Academy Award winner Sean Penn became a household name for his films, but he may be just as famous now for his activism. In this poignant, timely conversation, Penn sits down with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for the story of how Haiti’s 2010 earthquake inspired Penn to found his own nonprofit, and how the pull toward activism continues to inspire his work today.

Ellen Pompeo with Katie Couric

Saturday, June 14 @ 2 PM, The Indeed Theater at Spring Studios

Ellen Pompeo has brought Meredith Grey to life for over 21 seasons. Now she’s sitting down with award-winning journalist Katie Couric to discuss her iconic work in front of the camera and behind the scenes as a producer for Station 19, Good American Family, and her production company, Calamity Jane Entertainment

Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award: Rep. Jasmine Crockett presented by Whoopi Goldberg

Friday, June 13 @ 5:30 PM, SVA Theatre

This year, we’re honored to present the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award to Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Texas, whose passionate advocacy and dedication to progressive causes have inspired us all. After receiving the award, she’ll sit down with EGOT-winner Whoopi Goldberg to tell the story of her rise to political stardom and chart a course for what comes next.