Overview The Tribeca Festival is 12 days of premieres in June spread across Manhattan, from its hub at Spring Studios on Varick Street up to the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side, and its 25th edition in 2026 drew nearly 14,000 submissions. Film is the core of the program, but it also runs TV premieres, talks, music, podcasts, games and immersive work, and the festival dropped "Film" from its name in 2021 to reflect that. Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff put the first one together on 120 days' notice and opened it in May 2002, as part of the effort to bring people back to Lower Manhattan after September 11. On site Spring Studios at 50 Varick Street is the official hub. Screenings and premieres run out from there to the OKX Theater at BMCC TPAC on Chambers Street, Village East by Angelika in the East Village, SVA Theatre in Chelsea, AMC 19th St. East, the Beacon Theatre and The Lighthouse, a creator-economy studio campus in Brooklyn. Gala screenings at the Beacon Theatre and United Palace have reserved seats; everywhere else it is general admission, first come, first served. In 2026 the games program took over Pier 57 for five days with 14 playable titles, most of them unreleased, and entry was free. Tribeca's 2025 partnership deck counted more than 570 events across the festival. Audience Lines form about an hour before a screening, and when a show sells out a Rush line waits for released seats at the advance price. After each eligible screening, ticket and badge holders rate the film from one to five stars, and those ratings decide the Audience Awards. The industry side has its own track: Tribeca X, the festival's program on brand-funded storytelling, runs two days of talks and networking for more than 600 people from marketing, media and entertainment, with speakers who have included Diane von Furstenberg, Seth Meyers, Terry Crews, Gary Vaynerchuk and marketing executives from Frito-Lay and Adidas. Talent and Influencers Bruce Springsteen was named the festival's 2026 recipient of the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award, the year Alicia Keys: Girl From Hell's Kitchen closed the festival. A$AP Rocky received the first Tribeca X Filmmaker of the Year award the same year. Track record Tribeca X hands out its own awards for brand-backed work. In 2026 McDonald's won the features prize for Meal Ticket, Coca-Cola the commercial prize for The Last Coke in the Desert, Autodesk the episodic prize for Built to Move and Beats the content-creator prize. The festival's 2025 deck says 61% of its program was directed by women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ filmmakers. Brand presence OKX was the presenting partner in 2026, with its name on one of the festival's own venues, the OKX Theater at BMCC TPAC. Signature partners attach to individual programs, and the deck sells programming integration, hospitality, artist programs and custom events. Tribeca also makes the content itself: its production arm lists more than 100 productions and award wins from the Oscars and Emmys to Cannes Lions. Past custom work includes The Journey, a TUMI and Tribeca Talks series about women in film; Adidas's Create with Purpose documentary series; and General Mills' Ultimate Saturday Morning Drive-In.