The Tribeca Film Festival Is Coming To Astoria Park This June

ASTORIA, QUEENS — This year’s Tribeca Film Festival is straying from its namesake Manhattan location and coming to outdoor screening locations across all five boroughs, including three in Queens.

Rockaway Beach, Flushing Meadows Park, and Astoria Park are among 13 citywide outdoor screening locations being set up with a 40-foot tall cinema screen for the festival, which will run from June 9-20, according to the organizers.

The festival’s 12-day run includes talks, performances, and 200-plus movie screenings, five of which will be hosted at Astoria Park — a waterfront destination for several movie-screening events this summer.

"Tribeca was started to bring people together, and that's what we aim to do again this year, to connect communities across all five boroughs and share our festival experience, safely, while supporting local businesses," said Jane Rosenthal, who co-founded the festival in 2002 in an effort to spur a revitalization of lower Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks.

The festival, which will be the first in-person festival held in North America since the start of the pandemic, expects to host up to 100,000 guests at its various outdoor screening venues.

The event’s final night will invite a fully vaccinated audience to Radio City Music Hall — which has been closed for over a year — filling the venue to 100 percent capacity. More details about the screening for the closing night will be announced soon.

Governor Andrew Cuomo heralded the festival as an indication of the state’s pandemic recovery.

“As our numbers continue to decline and more and more New Yorkers get vaccinated, we can begin to turn the page on COVID and look forward to getting back to a new normal," he said in a Tuesday news release — the day after announcing that the state’s mask mandate will lift, in most situations, for vaccinated people on Wednesday.

"Events, venues and businesses all across New York State are reimagining how they operate for a post-pandemic world, and the Tribeca Festival is no exception,” he said, alluding to the many events and festivals, including Governors Ball, that are returning to the city the upcoming months.

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