Tribeca Festival 2025 Round-Up: Everything We Saw

The Tribeca Festival’s 2025 may have been the busiest and most popular event in ten times. As it inched closer to its third generation of life, the Tribeca Festival has been a productive melting dish of drama, music, sports, and video games. Although the 2025 version had all of these options […]

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The 2025 Tribeca Festival might have been the busiest and most popular event it has seen in the previous ten years. As it inched closer to its third generation of life, the Tribeca Festival has been a productive melting dish of drama, music, sports, and video games. Although the 2025 model featured all of these avenues of pleasure for the public, its movie offerings were jam-packed with great premieres and top-tier actors.

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Den of Geek was privileged to have a handful of some of our favorite celebrities and skill join us in our Manhattan workshop to discuss their movies, shows, and favourite things about the market in general. On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or wherever you find your favorite internet videos of the day, you can find movies and clips of all these great conversations. But we’re also pleased to share with you some alternative features below from our friends &#8217, quit over at the Den of Geek Studio. &nbsp,

Much Live the Express

Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney-Silver, David Wain, Todd Holoubek, Ken Marino, Michael Patrick Jann, Michael Ian Black, and producer Matthew Perniciaro are among the customers.

These times, members of funny band The State are perhaps more well known for projects like Reno 911!, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Wet Hot American Summer, and many, many, many other favorite sitcom titles. However, they all began making and appearing on the mid-’90s sketch comedy show The State on MTV.

That is certainly where this writer knows them from and the same goes for the director of the new documentary about the show, Matt Perniciaro. Everyone is familiar with the group’s founders, but they don’t always know where it all began, he claims. Their style of comedy also grew from a place that most comedy groups don’t jump start their careers from. We started out as a sketch group made up of film students at NYU, according to David Wain. It wasn’t an improv group. We were just as focused on making movie shorts as we were on making sketches.

While their style may be well known and almost mainstream to many viewers now, that wasn’t the case when they first started. They almost appeared to be the comedy’s punk rock kids. ” We thought we were really cool. We had this anti-establishment mentality right out of the gate,” says Kerri Kenny-Silver. ” I think it’s possibly from high school and feeling like you don’t necessarily fit in here and then you find this band of weirdos”. Todd Holoubeck, a fellow cast member, adds,” Nobody requested The Sex Pistols, but they did.” Nobody asked for The State, but they got The State”.

By not seeing Long Live The State as often as you can, you’re doing yourself a disservice, whether you’re a huge fan of The State or just someone who recognizes some of the most well-known comedians.

Rosemead

Guests: Lucy Liu and Eric Lin

Modern perceptions of mental health care are much more accepting and tolerant than they once were. Still, too many stigmas persist throughout the general public. This film, a directorial debut from director Eric Lin, centers on the lives of Irene ( Lucy Liu ) and her son Joe ( Lawrence Shou ), a diagnosed schizophrenic who has been struggling with his condition since his father passed away. Hiding her own terminal cancer diagnosis from many, including Joe, Irene fights to take care of Joe as his mental state spirals out of control. &nbsp,

While the themes of Rosemead are universal, Lucy Liu reports that the film speaks directly to some stigmas that perpetuate the Chinese community. It’s a stigma that is very current; many people claim that school is a lot of pressure and stress, but it’s going to be fine. Just keep pushing through it”, Liu says. And I believe that is what this film tries to reveal. The idea that it’s something we sweep under the rug and we find embarrassing and we try to create a face that is different from what is reality”.

Everyone else’s thoughts were also at the forefront of creating this movie when it came to portray schizophrenia realistically. As director Eric Lin puts it,” We did a lot of research on people’s experiences with schizophrenia and I will say that maybe one of the positive things about YouTube is that a lot of people record their psychotic episodes and put it online to talk people through it” .&nbsp,

Rosemead is designed to impress viewers with its realistic depictions of life and its overarching themes of both the light and the dark.

Seasoned

Guests: Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody, Gideon Grody-Patankin, Ewen Wright

You never thought you would become a social media star until Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody are two actors, let alone two. Thanks to their son Gideon Grody-Patinkin ( and Covid in a strange” Thanks, Covid” moment ), however, Mandy and Kathry n’s social media profile become a thing of beauty and now has now led to Seasoned, a new TV show that had its pilot play at the 2025 Tribeca Festival.

Seasoned is not just the Mandy and Kathryn TikTok show condensed into a half-hour format. And thankfully, it isn’t what a lot of people pitched to the family first. We were frequently approached for reality television shows, but we had no interest in doing that, says Gideon Grody-Patankin. While this is a scripted show and not reality television, the way director Ewen Wright describes it, it is still very much Mandy and Kathryn. The script is in their bones, but he claims they are “dancing on top of it” with their preferred way to say something or add a line there. &nbsp,

What is already there appears to be a component of Mandy Patinkin’s work ethic. As he likes to tell it, while there is always pressure to get things in on time, he wants to get as many options out into the air as possible,” My attitude is give them every possibility I can before we leave that angle. We&#8217, ve got to move on, the sand is running through the hourglass, and the clock is ticking.

Though not exactly in the same realm, once Seasoned hits that airwaves, it will be a perfect replacement for people who want more Curb Your Enthusiasm. &nbsp,

Paradise Records

Logic and T. Man the Wizard as guests

Paradise Records is not a biopic but it is in many ways based on the life of its writer/director/producer/star Logic. Some may wonder why Logic would shoulder the burden of all those tasks on his first film ever. The performer has always known what he is capable of because he’s hit those barriers from others in the past,” I’ve been told’ NO’ a lot”, he says. And I understand it. I’m like,’ hey man, I rap, but I got this idea for a movie and I wrote the script and I want to direct it and I want to star in it and I want full creative control.’ You’d be like,” Fuck you!”

And this is not a one time outing for Logic, either. He values movies more than music. He also is going to keep giving roles to people you may not expect to see cross over into acting,” As long as I’m blessed to keep making movies, I’m going to keep taking people that you might not typically see or may have never seen in a film and shed light on them”.

One of those people is Tramayne Hudson, a.k .a. T Man the Wizard, his best friend. And while Logic ( whose given name is Sir Robert Benson Hall II ), had a lot of top tier talent to work with on Paradise Records, T Man knew he had something special none of those other actors had,” I had a cheat code because Bob is my best friend. So that he could approach me a little differently from how he could approach the rest of the actors on the set.

Fior Di Latte&nbsp,

Guests: Charlotte Ercoli, Marta Pozzan, and Tim Heidecker.

Sense memory can be quite strong. We’ve all experienced those situations where a single scent, whether good or bad, unlocks a sense or state of being. For Max ( Tim Heidecker ) though, a single scent has overtaken his life in the new comedy written and directed by Charlotte Ercoli, Fior Di Latte.

” If you point any corner of this movie, it’s either something I’ve experienced or something that I’m interested in,” Ercoli says. And even though the lives of the film’s characters may be a little out there, they still remind the actors of themselves. Leading lady Marta Pozzan puts it best by saying,” I actually feel like Francesca’s a younger version of me. I don’t know if I’ll ever be that girl again but it was lovely to play her”.

For as significant of a privilege as it is to have people like Marta and Tim carry your movie, it is also great to have the great Kevin Kline participate in it as well, a joy that isn’t lost on those who were once my heroes and one of the greats. To work with him, it was a dream come true” .&nbsp,

The Sixth Borough

Guests: Jason Pollard, Julian Petty, and Andrew Theodorakis

Hip-Hop was a South Bronx native, according to legend. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who would say otherwise…and if they do, they &#8217, re wrong. And while the art form expanded and changed elsewhere in the world, Long Island is the only place on earth that is not credited with producing some of the world’s most notable artists. &nbsp,

Producer Julian Petty succinctly summarizes the blight of Long Island’s recognition:” One of the most well-known songs,” The Bridge is Over,” is where Hip-Hop originated and they were dissing MC Shan in Queens. So that whole concept of where you’re from defines you and defines your importance in Hip-Hop. And, Long Island has just been forgotten and forgotten.

Through the vision of director Jason Pollard, The Sixth Borough documents the history of some of the most important rap acts that were birthed in Long Island. The names Public Enemy, De La Soul, EPMD, Eric B., and Rakim are well known to so many people. But too many people don’t realize they all grew up and started their careers just minutes from each other in different Long Island towns. Without Rakim, you wouldn’t have the artists you have today, expanding the art form the way they are, as Jason might put it. So he deserves all the props we can give him”.

Oh, Hello!

Guests: Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, and Sophie Brooks

Relationships can be challenging. That shouldn’t be a shocking statement to anyone. We still exist in a world where it’s okay to be weird and be woefully non-committal. And when Isaac ( Logan Lerman ) drops the bomb of how he sees his relationship with Iris ( Molly Gordon ) whilst in a very compromising position…things don’t go the way anyone planned.

From a script co-written between Gordon and director Sophie Brooks, Oh, Hello! takes a high concept look at relationships. While the situations are heightened, everything starts from a real place for its creators, “The true jumping off point for this was that Sophie and I had relationships in our 20s that ended and we weren’t able to have a conversation that we wanted to have with them,” explains Gordon. Expanding on top of that, Sophie Brooks describes how that blossoms into what we see on screen, “There was certainly an element of wish fulfillment: In our darkest moments what would we do to try and keep someone’s attention?”

Additionally, it might be difficult to determine the ideal tone for telling a story like this. Do you go for the over the top comedy? Or is this a horror movie made? Sometimes these decisions come out of the shooting and editing process and not just the script. There are so many movies you could make out of the stuff we shot, as Logan Lerman puts it. Went in so many directions with it, tonally”.

No matter what you personally take away from Oh, Hello! you’re in for a treat because no character holds back in this one. Just take Molly’s word for it, “It was so fun to get to play a character that would say some of the things that I would actually say because I have a very dirty, wild humor.”

Man Finds Tape

Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman among the guests

Man Finds Tape isn’t necessarily a found footage film but rather a faux documentary about a man who notices some very strange things around his town, all compounded by a mysterious tape he finds in his basement. &nbsp,

Though it is in essence a mockumentary, most people would think of a comedy when you use that term. Co-director Peter Hall explains how he and Paul found their footing for the presentation of this movie,” The way we wrote this movie was we wrote essentially the events that happen.” Then we had to reframe it as if documentarians found that footage. How would they go about producing a documentary about it? This would be the found footage version of it”.

Additionally, the movie has some well-known names as producers, including Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, as well as C. Robert and Jessica Cargill. ” Justin and Aaron flew from the set of filming Daredevil: Born Again straight to us. They left Daredevil and came right to us, where they were posing as they carried tools and ripped the tape off.” It was crazy.

But Justin and Aaron did have suggestions, they weren’t there just to break down a set, Peter continues,” They really wanted us to lean into the weirdness of the film, to keep things enigmatic. They would say,” no guys, no guys,” if we ever felt like we had to overstate or pander to the audience. Paul follows up with just how important it is to have great collaborators,” It was incredible working with producers that just told you to make it weirder and answer less”.

When Man Finds Tape hits your screens, you’ll have to tell Peter and Paul if they gave in to Benson and Moorhead’s orders or if they followed them.

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