The Tribeca Film Festival was created by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 in response to the September 11th bombing attack on the World Trade Center. The Tribecca Film Festival is celebrated in the Lower Manhattan of New York City.
The first festival brought in 150,000 people, and the following year the festival grew to 300,000 people. The festival has helped improve the economy in New York especially after the September 11th attack.
It celebrates the art of cinema and features panel discussions, all-day family festivals, and premieres of popular films. It expanded to show independent features, documentaries, and short films from around the world. They have added music and comedy concerts, sports activities and outdoor movie screenings along the Hudson River.
Each year they add fun activities for families, workshops, interactive games and street fairs to help bring in larger crowds. De Niro purchased the theater at 54 Varick Street and he reopened it as the Tribeca Cinema to continue the mission of bringing in independent film to the widest possible audience. In 2011, the festival honored L.A. Noire – the first video game to be recognized by the Tribeca Film Festival.
Although the recent pandemic has put a pause on widespread events, Tribeca organized a YouTube event and raised international Covid-19 relief funds. Tribeca combined the work with 21 of the top international film festivals including Cannes, Sundance and others. Over 100 hours of short films, feature length films, discussions and music were presented to an audience of 1.9 million people in 179 countries.
Normally the festival runs from Mid-April to the end of April each year. For more information visit the website at https://tribecafilm.com/.
Tribeca Film Festival & IWC
In honor of their many years of collaboration with the Tribeca Film Festival, IWC is created a one-of-a-kind sculpture for auction in 2015, with all revenues benefiting the Tribeca Film Institute.
The IWC Portofino Monopusher Mechanical Chronograph “Tribeca Film Festival 2015” is the company’s first of its kind. It was made with a white gold case and has a slate grey dial which represents New York City. The Bordeaux subdials is meant to reflect the red carpet glamour of the Tribeca Film Festival.
It is a monopusher chronograph, meaning it doesn’t have the standard 2 pushers found in most chronographs today. You push the push piece on the crown to start the chronograph and again to stop the chronograph. The third time you push the chronograph, the counter will reset to zero.
The Bordeaux dial at the 12 o’clock position represents the minutes – up to 60 minutes for chronograph counting. The 2nd Bordeaux dial represents the 60 seconds at the 6 o’clock position. There is a date aperture at the 3 o’clock position. The power reserve indicator appears at the 9 o’clock position. It has an 8-day power reserve.
The complexity is provided by the IWC-made caliber 59360. It is not an automatic, and must be hand-wound at least once a week. It is based on the IWC Hand Wound 8-Days movement.
The case is a large 45mm in width with a depth of 13mm. It has a sapphire crystal with antireflective coating on both sides. It is water resistant to 3 bars, however it isn’t recommended for water bound activities.
The strap is a 9-inch IWC crocodile leather made by Santoni with an 18k white gold IWC buckle. The transparent back side of the timepiece shows the beauty of this unique movement and is emblazoned with Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Unique Piece, as if there was any doubt that this was a one-of-a-kind timepiece.
The one-of-a-kind Portofino Monopusher was auctioned off for $50,000 by Christies with a starting bid of 30,000. All proceeds would benefit the Tribeca Film Festival. The winner also received a one-time bonus of two tickets to the IWC’s “For the Love of Cinema” Gala Dinner and a Two-night stay at the Trump Soho luxury hotel plus passes to several events.
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