TRIBECA — The 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival is still eight months away, but organizers are already unveiling preliminary plans and soliciting submissions.
The festival, which was co-founded by Robert De Niro after 9/11 and draws many well-known actors, directors and musicians to lower Manhattan each year, will run from April 18 to 29 next year, organizers announced Monday.
Filmmakers can begin submitting documentary and narrative shorts and features on Sept. 19. The early deadline for submissions is Oct. 28, the official deadline is Dec. 2 and the late deadline, for feature-length films only, is Jan. 11.
The Tribeca Film Institute is also accepting applications for its grant and professional development programs.
From Aug. 8 to Oct. 10, budding filmmakers can apply for grants of $10,000 or more in one of four categories: documentary films; narrative films relating to science or technology; filmmakers who are women or minorities and filmmakers who are based in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and South America.
De Niro founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2001 with Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff as a way of bringing people back downtown after the terror attakcs. The festival has grown rapidly since then. It showed 93 features last year.
