Tribeca Festival Announces 2025 Creators Market Projects
The highly-anticipated Tribeca Creators Market is almost here, and IndieWire can reveal the buzzy projects selected for the three-day, invitation-only industry marketplace event. The 2025 Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX, has unveiled the slate of features, series, and audio projects that were chosen to be part of the Creators Market, in partnership with Indeed.
The Tribeca Creators Market will take place from June 9 to 11, and connect rising filmmakers and content creators with industry executives, financiers, and distributors to foster the production of indie projects. This year marks the first-ever open submissions call for the Works in Progress showcase; 12 narrative and documentary filmmakers were selected to preview their feature or episodic projects to financiers, festival programmers, and producers. Past Works in Progress alums include Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones Molina, who are debuting their 'Esta Isla' during the 2025 Tribeca Festival, and Raul Paz-Pastrana, who helmed Tribeca pick 'Backside.'
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'Tribeca is proud to offer the enriching Creators Market platform to these selected storytelling teams who are using their original sensibilities to deliver form-pushing works,' Senior Film Programmer Jose Rodriguez said. 'The diversity of their narratives – from socially-urgent topics to thoughtful youth-driven stories – present a powerful range of vision and artistic purpose.'
The Tribeca Creators Market was founded in 2016 and has worked with more than 250 storytellers. Major studios and production companies that have previously attended the Tribeca Creators Market Sony Pictures Classics, Neon, HBO, Plan B, Impact Partners, Ford Foundation, and Paramount+.
Check out the full list of Tribeca Creators Market participants below.
Narrative Features
Miguel Angel Caballero^, Luis Antonio Aldana, & Helena Sardinha
Aliza Gandhi, Ryan Cunningham, Isa Barrett, & Ruby Karp
James Gannon & Matt Ferrin
Ghost + Cow
Manya Glassman & Jocelyn Blockinger
Wes Andre Goodrich^ & Patrick Nichols
Oscar Labovich & Katelynn Mansberger*
Annalise Lockhart & Zachary Shedd
Jessye McGarry, Jessica DiMento, Anna Baryshnikov, & Juliana Canfield
Mauro Mueller, David Figueroa, & Leslie Holleran*
Sonja O'Hara, Peter Phok, & Adam Hoelzel
Stavros Petropoulos & Leonidas Konstantarakos
Peggy Tserwen Tseng & Sheng-Ting Shen*
Eve Van Dyke, Caitlin Bruner, & Lauren Chen
Jackie! Zhou^ & Reef Oldberg
Narrative Series
Brittany Ashley*
Mary Johnson & Lexi Diamond*
Gbenga Komolafe^ & Tee Jaehyung Park
Joanna Leeds & Andrew Leeds
Veronica Reyes-How & Paul Schnee
Ewen Wright & Gideon Grody-Patinkin
Documentary Features
Christopher Booker*
Nick Capezzera & J. Faye Yuan*
Sam Cullman, Christopher Frierson, Morgan Pehme, & Daniel DiMauro
Caitlyn Greene & Sara Archambault
Emma D. Miller, Florrie Priest, & Colby Day
Rodrigo Olivar, Brenda Avila Hanna, Armando Croda, & Alejandro Mejía
Kristofer Rios, Carla Gutierrez, & Katia Maguire
Will Thwaites*
Lerone D. Wilson & Andrea Mustain*
Jason Zeldes & Nora Chute*
Documentary Series
Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler, Jeffery Robinson, & Diana Cherry*
Jen Maylack, Nicholas Bruckman, Yoni Brook, & James Doolittle
Josh Tickell*
Audio Projects
Fair Worlds
Jazmine (JT) Green
Tania Mohammad & Shahjehan Khan
Yowei Shaw
* = Works-in-Progress Showcase Participant
^ = Indeed Rising Voices Filmmaker
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