Tribeca Film Festival Sets 2019 Dates, Launches Critics Week Sidebar

The Tribeca Film Festival has set April 24-May 5, 2019, as the dates for the 18th edition of the New York City film event.

The upcoming fest also will introduce a new sidebar, Critics Week, organizer said Wednesday. A first for a North American festival, the inaugural Critics Week will feature five to seven films that will screen throughout the event. The section will be curated by a group of New York-based film critics, including IndieWire chief film critic and deputy editor Eric Kohn, Vanity Fair film critic K. Austin Collins, Village Voice film critic Bilge Ebiri, BuzzFeed News film critic and culture writer Alison Willmore, and New York Magazine and Vulture film critic Emily Yoshida.

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“The New York critical community has long been our compatriots in championing the most exciting new voices and trends in cinema, so we are thrilled that Tribeca will officially partner with them with this inaugural Critics Week program,” Tribeca director of programming Cara Cusumano said in a statement. “We look forward to discovering the new work they select, along with all the upcoming features, shorts, TV, VR, and online work from around the world as we officially open for submissions for Tribeca 2019.”

The festival also announced that the Tribeca X Award, which debuted in 2016 to honor the best in branded entertainment, will expand with new juried award competitions for feature-length film, short film, episodic and VR. Previous Tribeca X winners include works for Samsung (Hearing Colors, directed by Greg Brunkalla), Smirnoff Ice (Chris Fonseca: Keep It Moving, directed by Zachary Heinzerling) and Square (For Every Kind of Dream Series, directed by Mohammad Gorjestani).

“We have been impressed with the caliber of stories and creators submitting to Tribeca X to the point where we see a need to increase visibility for the work being done in branded entertainment by expanding with additional awards opportunities,” said Tribeca Enterprises executive vp Paula Weinstein.

Submissions for the festival, presented by AT&T, open on Monday for all sections. Details are available here, and submissions can also be made via Withoutabox here.