on the late chef anthony bourdain. documentaries were among the stronger offerings at the 12 day event. tribeca co founder robert de niro sees his festival with its broad slate bringing his city together after the peoples of the pandemic and social tumult of the last year. film is a way of creating that, promoting that, the idea that we are all the same, we are different but the same. and we re all in it together. the tribeca festival came into being 20 years ago, partly as a civic restoration project, co led by robert de niro to rebuild new york s tribeca neighbourhood in the wake of the september the 11th attacks on the nearby world trade center towers. in the heights cinematographer alice brookes saw the festival playing a similar role in new york city today, hit hard by the pandemic. being able to start to come out of this pandemic and have one