2021 Tribeca Film Festival: Opening highlights you can stream at home

The curtain went up last night on the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, and it is both an indoor and outdoor affair.

The opening night feature of the festival, "In the Heights," screened throughout the city on Wednesday, for the most part on portable 40-foot state-of-the-art LED screens in public spaces, prior to its opening Thursday in theaters and on HBO Max. In fact, virtually all of the festival's screenings will be held outdoors as a COVID-19 precaution, even as more restrictions on public gatherings are falling in New York. In another pandemic-related adjustment, organizers decided to make much of this year's festival available to home viewers across the U.S. Many of the 66 features and documentaries making their debut through June 20, as well as shorts programs, TV features and filmmaker Q&As, will be available to stream from their premiere dates through June 23. (The festival is also giving another shot to films whose 2020 festival showcases were disrupted by the pandemic last year, when Tribeca was cancelled, replaced with the cooperative We Are One Global Festival.)