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.

NFMLA for Disabilities Cinema on May 9th & 10th 2025

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) hosts its May Monthly Film Festival, which features its annual InFocus: Disabilities program, along with May Shorts, writer-director Jess Dang’s debut feature narrative Surrender, and an opening selection of student animation with the CSULB Animation Showcase.

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Go beyond the screenings with Talks, Reunions, and Retrospectives

Tribeca Festival 2025, presented by OKX, is getting more exciting by the day, and this might be our most buzzworthy announcement yet. Announcing this year’s lineup of Talks, Reunions, and Retrospectives, featuring groundbreaking artists, cultural icons, and unforgettable movie moments.

But that’s not all! Today marks the start of single ticket sales, so now you can purchase tickets for the specific screenings, talks, and events you want to see. Want to see a lot? We’re also running a flash sale on Hudson passes through Sunday, meaning there are more ways than ever for you to build your perfect Festival experience.

With so much exciting programming at this year’s Festival, Hudson Passes are still the best way to get the full Festival experience with exclusive benefits and access to all the events you want to see, including the choice to attend our Opening or Closing Night Galas.

Tribeca’s much-loved Storytellers series is back with live, in-depth conversations featuring bold and influential voices from film, television, music, and more. Sit down with Oscar winner Sean Penn and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for a timely discussion on activism, storytelling, and global impact, exercise your funny bone with comedian and actor Jim Gaffigan, or get the inside scoop on how one of TV’s longest-running series stays fresh during a chat with Grey’s Anatomy star and executive producer Ellen Pompeo, presented by City National Bank.

Rounding out our Talks series is a conversation with Oscar-winning producer and composer Mark Ronson, whose work on Barbie the Album and A Star is Born’s smash hit “Shallow” perfectly encapsulates the relationship between music and filmmaking.

Check out the full list of Talks here.

Nostalgia meets inspiration with our Reunions and Retrospectives lineup, where we’ll be celebrating milestone anniversaries of some of the film industry’s most enduring work. Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Casino with a special screening presented by City National Bank, followed by a conversation with Tribeca Festival Co-Founder Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese, moderated by W. Kamau Bell. De Niro will also be joined by Meet the Parents producer, fellow Co-Founder, and Tribeca CEO Jane Rosenthal, as well as his co-star Ben Stiller, to celebrate 25 years of the beloved family comedy Meet the Parents.

Fresh off her stay at the White Lotus, Parker Posey will be joining us to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the legendary mockumentary Best in Show, presented in partnership with Purina, alongside the film’s groundbreaking director Christopher Guest, and all-star cast members Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, and Michael McKean, moderated by Stephen Colbert.

Other anniversary screenings include a 25th anniversary screening of Requiem for a Dream, followed by a conversation about the film with director Darren Aronofsky and Ellen Burstyn, 35 years since the the seminal queer documentary Paris is Burning, and a tribute to 60 years of The Doors with a screening of the Emmy-nominated documentary When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors, followed by an exclusive conversation with drummer John Densmore.

Learn more about our Reunions and Retrospectives here.

Already filling up your Festival calendar with must-see events? Even with single tickets on sale, our Hudson Pass holders still get exclusive perks like:

Priority access to screenings and events
Priority access to our Tribeca Talks, including the Storytellers and Director series
The option to attend our Opening or Closing Night Galas
Access to passholder-exclusive lounges

Sale ends Sunday, May 4 at 11:59 pm ET.

Los Angeles Premiere for “Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day” Follow-Up to Iconic Indie “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters”

Director: Ed Cunningham
Producers: Jonathan Perkins, Seth Gordon and Mike J. Nichols
Writers: Ed Cunningham, Mike J. Nichols, and Paul Leach
Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1 hour 34 minutes
Executive producers: Ed Cunningham, Byron Ashley, Scott Jackson, Harrison Kordestani Kerry, Cathy Loveland and Paul Campoamor
Editor: Mike J. Nichols.

Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day is a musical documentary following 74-year-old Walter Day - the father of esports and star of The King of Kong - as he battles a lawsuit threatening his legacy while fulfilling his dream of recording and performing the rock-opera style love songs he has been hearing in his head since having his heart broken at the height of the arcade era.

Director Ed Cunningham’s Statement: The King of Kong premiered at Slamdance 2007 to a packed house of just the right type of audience. As the filmmakers, we could not have selected a better group of people to be the first to see something we had lived with for three years. The gamers, tech-types and doc lovers were all into it from frame one. “Is this real?” “Get a load of that guy.” The whispers, laughs and touching moments were all hitting. Then the projector overheated and shutdown. As the director sprinted up the aisle to help, I just listened. The break in tension allowed everyone to check in with each other. We knew the film could be seen as mocking people we had grown to love, doubt and admire and had worked tirelessly to present them truthfully and empathetically. And this audience got it. From that night forward, the original documentary has changed many people’s lives – for better and worse – so when Billy Mitchell called to tell me Walter Day was being sued based on things that happened in our movie, I began helping make sure he was properly defended. In a lawsuit strategy meeting I learned that some King of Kong fans were funding Walter to produce and perform the songs he had been hearing in his head since having his heart broken in the ‘80s, a story he shared in the original film. I felt a responsibility to document the conclusion to Walter’s journey and it was also a great opportunity because I love his music and want to help get out in the world.

‘The Accountant 2′ Starring Ben Affleck in Theaters April 25, 2025

Release date: April 25, 2025 (United States)
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Writer: Bill Dubuque
Based on Characters by Bill Dubuque
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Daniella Pineda, J. K. Simmons
Genre: Action, thriller
Ratings: R
Run time: 2 hours 12 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English

Director Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant 2 is the sequel to the 2016 film The Accountant that tells the story of Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), The Accountant an accountant who launders money for some of the most dangerous criminals in the world; Braxton (Jon Bernthal), Christian's brother; Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), a young Treasury agent; Anaïs (Daniella Pineda); Justine (Allison Robertson); Raymond King (J. K. Simmons), the Director of the Treasury Department's FinCEN, Burke (Robert Morgan), Cobb (Grant Harvey) and Batu (Andrew Howard)

Production companies: Artists Equity, 51 Entertainment, Zero Gravity Management, Filmtribe
Distributors: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (through Amazon MGM Studios; United States)
Warner Bros. Pictures (International)
Producers: Ben Affleck, Lynette Howell Taylor, Mark Williams
Cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey
Editor: Richard Pearson
Music: Bryce Dessner

PARAMOUNT+ ACCLAIMED ORIGINAL COMEDY SERIES COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS TO RETURN FOR A THIRD SEASON

Seasons One and Two Are Currently Available to Stream Exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S.

The Australian Comedy Series Is Produced by Easy Tiger Productions and CBS Studios and Commissioned by the Foxtel Group

April 8, 2025 – Paramount+ today announced that it picked up a third season of the acclaimed original comedy series COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS, exclusively for Paramount+ in the U.S. Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer return to write, executive produce and star in the new season. Seasons one and two were met with critical acclaim and each continue to hold a 100% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

“We’re VERY excited to bring you season three of our show,” said Brammall and Dyer. “To be honest, with the way we ended season two it would have been weird not to make a third, so here we are. We promise we won’t leave you hanging like that again. Probably.”

COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS is a romantic comedy about flawed, funny people choosing each other and embracing the all-too-relatable chaos of modern life. In addition to Dyer and Brammall, the season two cast features Emma Harvie, Genevieve Hegney, Michael Logo, Helen Thomson, Darren Gilshenan, Annie Maynard, Tai Hara and Glenn Hazeldine, along with Celeste Barber, Virginia Gay, Justin Rosniak, John Howard, Lynne Porteus and Broden Kelly.

COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS is commissioned by the Foxtel Group and produced by Easy Tiger Productions and CBS Studios. Patrick Brammall, Harriet Dyer, Alison Hurbert-Burns, Lana Greenhalgh, Trent O’Donnell, Rob Gibson and Ian Collie served as season two executive producers and Kevin Greene produced. Season two was financed with the assistance of Screen NSW, through the Made in NSW Fund. COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS is distributed outside of Australia and New Zealand by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

The first two seasons are currently available to stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. and internationally on BINGE and Foxtel in Australia, BBC iPlayer in the UK, Citytv+ in Canada, Cosmote TV in Greece, YES in Israel, SVT in Sweden, NRK in Norway, DRTV/DR1 in Denmark, YLE Areena/YLE TV2 in Finland, MNET 101 in Pan Africa, Universal+ in Latin America and RTE2 in Ireland. In addition to Paramount+ in the U.S., season three will be coming to BINGE and Foxtel in Australia, BBC iPlayer and channels in the United Kingdom, Citytv+ in Canada, RTE2 in Ireland, Cosmote TV in Greece, Universal+ in Latin America, SVT in Sweden, MNET 101 in Pan Africa and others.

COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS has garnered renowned international recognition and acclaim, including a recent BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best International Series, alongside winning two Gotham TV Awards (Breakthrough Comedy Series and Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series) and three Australian Logie Awards (for Outstanding Comedy Program, Outstanding Actor and Outstanding Actress). In addition, it was the most nominated comedy series at the 2024 and 2025 AACTA Awards with 19 total nominations, including Best Narrative Comedy Series and Best Acting in Comedy for Brammall and Dyer.

About Paramount+

Paramount+, part of Paramount’s (Nasdaq: PARA, PARAA) global portfolio of multimedia entertainment and news brands, is a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, combining live sports, breaking news and A Mountain of Entertainment™. The streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, the service's cornerstone plan, is also home to SHOWTIME® content, including scripted hits and critically acclaimed nonfiction projects and films. This premium plan includes unmatched events and sports programming through the local live CBS stream, including golf, basketball and more. All Paramount+ subscribers have streaming access to CBS News Network for 24/7 news and CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis.

For more information about Paramount+, please visit www.paramountplus.com, and follow @ParamountPlus on social media.

About CBS Studios

CBS Studios is one of the world’s leading producers of entertainment programming, with dozens of globally popular series for broadcast and streaming. The Studio’s expansive portfolio includes a diverse slate of commercially successful and critically acclaimed programming which includes genre-defining franchises such as NCIS and the STAR TREK universe, fan-favorite comedies such as THE NEIGHBORHOOD and GHOSTS, the newly reimagined MATLOCK, and buzzy international co-productions such as COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS and upcoming KING & CONQUEROR.

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THE NAKED GUN: View New Trailer

Paramount Pictures Presents In Association with Domain Entertainment, A Fuzzy Door Production “THE NAKED GUN”

Director: Akiva Schaffer
Writers: Dan Gregor & Doug Mand & Akiva Schaffer
Cast: Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, CCH Pounder, Kevin Durand, Cody Rhodes, Liza Koshy, Eddie Yu, with Danny Huston
Executive Producers: Daniel M. Stillman, Akiva Schaffer, Pete Chiappetta, Anthony Tittanegro, Andrew Lary
Producers: Seth MacFarlane, Erica Huggins, p.g.a.

Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world! Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) follows in his father's footsteps in THE NAKED GUN,

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Keeping it Real, Telling it Like it is, Jamie Fox, Angela Bassett and Other Black Leading Men and Women in Hollywood do that and More in ‘Number One on The Call Sheet’

Release Date: March 28, 2025 Apple TV+
Directors: Reginald Hudlin Shola Lynch
Country: United States
Language: English

Directors Reginald Hudlin and Shola Lynch brings the raw truths of leading black men and women in Hollywood to the screen in ‘Number One on The Call’ as they give their accounts of the struggles and triumphs as the they have risen and continue to rise on the call sheet.

You hear from the biggest names in Hollywood. The likes of Eddie Murphy, Dwayne “Rock” Johnson, Lawrence Fishburn, Taraji P. Henson, Whoopi Goldberg, and more, as they move on up.

The two-part documentary is produced by Jamie Fox and Kevin Hart and executive producers are Reginald Hudlin, Bryan Smiley, Halle Berry, Viola Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett.

Production companies are Foxx Hole Production, Story Syndicate and Hartbeat Productions.

Must see on Friday, March 28, 2025

‘NOVOCAINE’: When a Man Loves A Woman

Directors: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Writer: Lars Jacobson
Starring: Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Jacob Batalon, Betty Gabriel, Matt Walsh
Run time:1 hour 51 minutes
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime-romance-thriller
Rating: R
Country United States
Language: English

Directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen’s action thriller tells the story of Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid) a bank executive with a congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), who puts his inability to feel to good use in order to rescue his girlfriend Sherry (Amber Midthunder) who is taken hostage by bank robbers. The film also stars Ray Nicholson, Jacob Batalon, Betty Gabriel, and Matt Walsh.

Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Directors: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Writer: Lars Jacobson
Producers: Joby Harold, Tory Tunnell, Drew Simon
Production companies: Infrared Pictures, Safehouse Pictures, Circle of Confusion
Starring: Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Jacob Batalon, Betty Gabriel, Matt Walsh
Cinematographer: Jacques Jouffret
Editor: Christian Wagner
Music: Lorne Balfe, Andrew Kawczynski

Through the Lens: An Evening with Black Women Directors Presented by Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP/EMCC and the Alliance of Women Directors

A Black History Month event celebrating black women directors in Hollywood. The event took place at The Mark Theater, formerly WACO, in North Hollywood.

The discussion was opened by the Beverly Hills/Hollywood Ron Hassan and was moderated by Tanika Ray, multi-talented entertainment reporter and actress, the guest panelist included: Christine Swanson, a writer and director of film and television; Emmy-nominated Marta Cunningham, a former ballet dancer, executive producer, writer and director;Nicki Micheaux, actress, writer and director; and Princes Monique Filmz, writer and director.