The Tribeca Film Festival announced on Friday that it will open this year’s edition, which celebrates 20 years, with the long-awaited film In the Heights, an adaptation of what was the first musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, responsible for Hamilton successful.
For the first time in the history of the New York festival, which this year will take place from June 9 to 20, the film will be screened on the first night of the simultaneous show in the five districts that make up the city, in several places around the fresh air .
But the main event will take place at the United Palace in Washington Heights, north of Manhattan, which also marks the world premiere of In the Heights, a Latin-flavored film that revolves around the lives and concerns of the various characters in which they live. the New York neighborhood of Washington Heights, where Dominican immigrants are concentrated.
“It is an honor to inaugurate the 20th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival. (…) We can’t wait to share this love letter in the form of a musical to our community, to our community, in our community “, said in a communiqué Miranda, who composed both the lyrics and the music of the opera In Heights in 1999, when I was 19 years old.
“In Heights is the Chinese story of New York, about hard work, endurance and triumph,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder and CEO of Tribeca Film Festival, who was “proud” to have had the film. On the first night of the show for “celebrating the Latino community.”
The film version of In the Heights includes Anthony Ramos, Melissa Barrera, Corey Hawkins, Jimmy Smits, Dascha Polanco and Lin-Manuel Miranda, among others.
The film’s premiere, directed by Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, 2019), is one of the big bets of the production company Warner Bros., but it was very affected by the pandemic.
Although, in principle, it was to hit cinemas in June 2020, that release was suspended due to the coronavirus without being reported again at that time.
Earlier this year, it was announced that it will finally hit theaters in June, although it was only this Friday that it will be released on June 9 and will play such an important role at the Tribeca Film Festival.
After its sample presentation, In the Heights will be available in US theaters from June 11 and 31 days later on the HBO Max platform.
So far, Tribeca Film Festival has not yet announced which films will participate in the event or which film will close this year’s edition, which takes place two months later than usual.
Like many other festivals, the one at Tribeca initially had to suspend the 2020 edition due to the coronavirus pandemic, which it later celebrated in the middle of the year in a fully digital format.