Jane Rosenthal on Tribeca Films and Making Movies Work
The co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival talks about finding her way to the work she was always meant to do.
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This week on The Moment, Brian talks to Jane Rosenthal, one of the most renowned producers in show business. Along with Robert De Niro, she co-founded Tribeca Productions in lower Manhattan and is also the co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, which begins this week in New York City. Go grab your tickets today.
On today’s show, Jane talks about being the first female page in the Rhode Island State House (5:00), the roadblocks she had to fight through as a young woman producing television (19:00), and meeting Martin Scorsese on the set of The Color of Money (23:00). Plus, Brian and Jane discuss the long road to making A Bronx Tale (31:00), Robert De Niro’s performance as Bernie Madoff in the upcoming HBO movie The Wizard of Lies (45:30), and the character trait in Hillary Clinton that she believes nobody else can truly see (57:00).
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