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Jane Rosenthal

Jane Rosenthal co-founded Tribeca Productions and the Tribeca Film Center with Robert De Niro in 1988. She has distinguished herself as a leading film producer with a roster of both critically and commercially acclaimed films. Jane has been featured numerous times in Variety’s Women in Showbiz and The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment issues.

Rosenthal has produced one of the highest grossing comedy franchises of all times, Meet The Parents (2000) and its sequel Meet The Fockers (2004); the box office sensation Analyze This (1999) and its sequel Analyze That (2002); the Academy Award©-nominated Wag the Dog (1997); and critically acclaimed films Marvin’s Room (1996) and About a Boy (2002).

Rosenthal has just finished producing What Just Happened?, directed by Barry Levinson and based on the book written by producer Art Linson for 2929 Entertainment. Additional credits include The Good Shepherd (2006) directed by De Niro; Rent (2005); House of D (2005); Stage Beauty (2004); Showtime (2002); The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000); Flawless (1999); De Niro’s directorial debut A Bronx Tale (1993); The Night We Never Met (1993); Thunderheart (1992); Mistress (1992); Night and the City (1992).

Tribeca Productions is currently in development on Little Fockers for Universal Pictures, 36 and The Winter of Frankie Machine for Paramount Pictures, and the untitled Freddie Mercury project.

Rosenthal and De Niro launched Tribeca TV in 1992 and executive produced the critically acclaimed series Tribeca for Fox TV. In 1998, Tribeca produced the miniseries, Witness to the Mob, based on the life of Sammy ‘The Bull’ Gravano for NBC.

In 2002, Rosenthal launched Tribeca Theatrical with De Niro and produced We Will Rock You, a rock musical based on the international hit songs of the legendary band Queen which has been running to sold out audiences at the Dominion Theatre in London, England for six years. We Will Rock You has had successful runs in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and the U.S in Las Vegas.

In 2001, Rosenthal along with partners De Niro and Craig Hatkoff founded the Tribeca Film Festival after 9/11 to heal the community through film. The Festival has attracted more than 2 million visitors and generated over $425 million dollars in economic activity since its inception. In six years, the festival has showcased over 950 films from 54 different countries.

At the same time, Rosenthal and partners co-founded the Tribeca Film Institute where she has served as co-chairman of the board since its founding. The Institute has become an instrumental resource for filmmakers through initiatives such as Tribeca All Access, a program designed to help foster relationships between film industry executives and filmmakers from traditionally underrepresented communities, the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, which offers finishing funds to independent filmmakers with projects that promote social change, and the TFI Youth Initiatives, a broad range of programs where students with an interest in cinema have the opportunity to learn more about careers in film and about how to use film to think about their own stories and communities.

In an effort to continue supporting downtown arts in need Rosenthal, De Niro and Hatkoff launched the Tribeca Theater Festival in 2004 in association with the non-profit theater collective Drama Dept. The Theater Festival showcased a series of short plays by some of the theater community’s leading playwrights, including Douglas Carter Beane, Peter Hedges, David Henry Hwang, Neil LaBute, Warren Leight, Kenneth Lonergan, Frank Pugliese, Paul Rudnick and Wendy Wasserstein, in addition to a grant program that supported non-profit theater companies in the downtown area.

Prior to founding Tribeca Productions, Rosenthal was an executive at CBS-TV and The Walt Disney Company. She is an active leader on the boards of New York City Outward Bound Center, NYU Child Study Center, the American Museum of the Moving Image, and the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Dean’s Council.