Jennifer Lopez and docu Halftime kick off Tribeca Festival

The Jennifer Lopez’s documentary Halftime is kicking off the 21st Tribeca Festival on Wednesday, launching the annual New York event with an intimate behind-the-scenes portrait of the singer-actor filmed during the tumultuous year she turned 50, co-headlined the Super Bowl and narrowly missed out on an Oscar nomination, reports AP. The star-studded, musical premiere
at the United Palace in Washington Heights serves as an appropriate opener for the Tribeca Festival, which has jettisoned Film from its name to better reflect
the wide array of concerts, talks, television premieres, podcasts and virtual reality exhibits that increasingly fill its busy live-event schedule alongside movies.
This year’s festival, running through June 19, will trot out plenty of big personalities, from Al Sharpton (the subject of the festival-closing documentary Loudmouth) to Taylor Swift (who will sit for a talk with filmmaker Mike Mills about the 2021 short film she directed), to fill some of Manhattan’s biggest theatres. Halftime director Amanda Micheli hopes the
documentary, premiering June 14 on Netflix,
presents a new – sometimes vulnerable, often
powerfully resilient – side to its famous subject.