TRIBECA DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT – Lara Everly’s Tribeca Double Premiere Marks the Arrival of a Distinct New Auteur

Meet Lara Everly, The Director Turning Personal Trauma Into Fearless Cinema At the 2026 Tribeca Festival, filmmaker Lara Everly arrives with a distinction few directors achieve in a single year: two short film premieres. But for Everly, the milestone is less about industry validation than survival, reinvention, and artistic catharsis. ECONSTRUCTING CHARLIE Her two Tribeca selections, RECONSTRUCTING CHARLIE and SELAH, are vastly different in tone and setting, yet … Continue reading TRIBECA DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT – Lara Everly’s Tribeca Double Premiere Marks the Arrival of a Distinct New Auteur

TRIBECA DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT – Elena Parasco Brings A Tender, Unsettling New York Story To Tribeca With I’M NOT HOME

Writer-director Elena Parasco is making a notable arrival on the independent film landscape with I’m Not Home, the atmospheric debut short premiering at the Tribeca Festival. Starring Julian De Niro and Eli Brown, the Queens-set drama marks Parasco’s transition from experimental and commissioned work into narrative filmmaking, bringing with it a highly controlled visual language and a distinctly sensory approach to storytelling. Set over the course of a single afternoon, I’m Not Home follows … Continue reading TRIBECA DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT – Elena Parasco Brings A Tender, Unsettling New York Story To Tribeca With I’M NOT HOME