“It’s a symptom across the board of all our artist organizations chasing the money,” says Brian Newman, a strategic consultant and former CEO of TFI. Given the lingering effects of the COVID era and the consolidation of media companies, it’s not only a challenging moment for the art-film business, but a precarious time for the nurturing of artists who are its future. Rather than an outlier, it may have been a sign of things to come. At the time, TFI’s closure appeared to be the result of a unique case of pandemic skittishness combined with its parent organization’s increasingly for-profit ambitions. For 17 years, TFI had supported hundreds of filmmakers and projects, including underrepresented artists, through its Tribeca All Access program, as well as Latin American filmmakers and VR visionaries. When the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) announced in spring 2020 that they would shutter, many in the independent film community were shocked.
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