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The 2026 Tribeca Festival opened 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, multiple productions that used Wrapbook premiered at Tribeca. They span five sections of the festival's milestone 25th anniversary edition—from 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.
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.
It's Mickey Keating's eighth feature, and by now the pattern is clear: pick a genre, take it apart, put it back together as something distinctly his own. This time it's Chicago's criminal underworld: noir lighting, spaghetti-western musical cues, and Angela Trimbur as a former stick-up artist whose past makes her an offer she probably shouldn't take. It moves like a pulp novel and looks like a Mickey Keating movie, which is exactly what it should be.
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. Multiple 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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