Tribeca Film Festival is expanding its focus on video games at next year’s planned fest in New York City: For the first time, Tribeca will open submissions for games to join the 2021 festival as official selections — and will bestow the inaugural Tribeca Games Award from the entries.
The festival also announced a new advisory board for Tribeca Games comprising luminaries from the games and film worlds. The members are filmmaker Nia DaCosta; writer-producer-director Jon Favreau, Electronic Arts co-founder Bing Gordon; the Game Awards producer Geoff Keighley; legendary game creator Hideo Kojima (“Death Stranding”); Sam Lake, creative director of Remedy Entertainment; and Kiki Wolfkill, head of 343 Industries’ Halo transmedia and entertainment at Xbox.
Tribeca’s move to make games part of the official festival comes after Tff has featured games and creators over the last several years, and as the worlds of cinema and gaming are increasingly blurring together, said Jane Rosenthal,...
The festival also announced a new advisory board for Tribeca Games comprising luminaries from the games and film worlds. The members are filmmaker Nia DaCosta; writer-producer-director Jon Favreau, Electronic Arts co-founder Bing Gordon; the Game Awards producer Geoff Keighley; legendary game creator Hideo Kojima (“Death Stranding”); Sam Lake, creative director of Remedy Entertainment; and Kiki Wolfkill, head of 343 Industries’ Halo transmedia and entertainment at Xbox.
Tribeca’s move to make games part of the official festival comes after Tff has featured games and creators over the last several years, and as the worlds of cinema and gaming are increasingly blurring together, said Jane Rosenthal,...
- 9/24/2020
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
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