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The 2026 Tribeca Festival opens June 3 with 118 feature films, 87 shorts, and somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand things that could have gone wrong along the way.
Crew deals that took weeks to close. Payroll that had to go out on Friday even when the location fell through on Thursday. Deal memos for actors who came aboard two weeks before the shoot. This is what it actually takes to make a film. It's the part that doesn't make it into the press notes. It's the part we know best.
This year, six productions that used Wrapbook are premiering at Tribeca. They span five sections of the festival's milestone 25th anniversary edition—from an HBO documentary by one of music's great polymaths to three films competing for the top narrative prize to a debut feature by a director who also wrote the script and stars in it. Here's a look at each one.
The festival opens Wednesday night at the Beacon Theatre with Questlove's new documentary about Earth, Wind & Fire. It's a fitting choice for a 25th anniversary edition: a film about legacy, about music that has outlasted trends and kept finding new listeners, made by a filmmaker who already proved with Summer of Soul that he knows how to make the past feel present.
Produced by RadicalMedia and acquired by HBO, this is an event film in the best sense—the kind that earns the word.
Directed by Rob Rice and produced by Megan Pickrell for Full Spectrum Features, Ponderosa enters the U.S. Narrative Competition alongside two other Wrapbook-supported films. A cast of Jack Dylan Grazer, Alexis Bledel, and Bill Camp doesn't happen unless the script earned it.
John Early, Patti Harrison, and Kate Berlant in a film directed by Doron Max Hagay. If you already know these three performers, you understand why this is one of the most anticipated films in the competition section. If you don't, Tribeca is an excellent place to begin. Produced by Tinygiant, a company that works fluently across commercial and independent film, which, if you watch how they move, you'll realize is not a contradiction.
Ellie Sachs wrote it, directed it, and stars in it. There's a version of Lucy Schulman that doesn't get made—most first features exist as that version. This one didn't. Produced by Fernando Loureiro and Guilherme Coelho of Tigresa alongside Morwin Schmookler and Gabriel Amaral, it's the kind of debut that happens when someone simply refuses to stop.
Viewpoints is where Tribeca puts the films that resist easy categorization, which, historically, means the program where you find the ones worth remembering. Crooks premieres there this year.
A short film, officially selected. A reminder that the festival still belongs to filmmakers who are just getting started, and that the best ideas don't have a runtime requirement.
Ponderosa, She Keeps Me Young, and Lucy Schulman all compete in the U.S. Narrative Competition, which means the jury is going to have to choose between them. We're rooting for all three. That's our official position and we're sticking to it.
Every one of these productions used Wrapbook to manage crew payroll, onboarding, and production accounting. The operational layer that doesn't make it into the program notes. The work that happens at 11pm when a deal memo needs to go out before morning call.
We built Wrapbook because independent film deserves production infrastructure as good as what the studios have—and shouldn't need a studio budget to access it. Six productions at Tribeca's 25th anniversary is a pretty good sign that it's working. Congratulations to everyone premiering this year. We'll be watching.
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