Fashion Institute Of New York City

Fashion Institute Of New York City

Fashion Institute Of New York City

If many of the films of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival seemed to share a strong sense of place, in one area at least this is what the organizers intended. The Made in New York Narrative Award at the festival is given each year to an outstanding film that is, as the name indicates, shot on location in New York City.

The Point of the Tribeca Film Festival

The Made In New York Narrative category is a natural outgrowth of the festival’s original raison d’etre. Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal began the festival in the wake of Sept. 11 in order to stimulate interest in returning to Lower Manhattan and, more specifically, to showcase films made in New York City.

Seven years in, the festival has grown much too big for its original Tribeca environs; this year, the screenings primarily took place in the East Village and around Union Square, where mega-theaters made it possible to run the festival screenings alongside the usual first-run releases.