This 12 months’s Tribeca Competition in June will open with the world premiere of HBO‘s two-part documentary Billy Joel: So It Goes.
The announcement was made Sunday by competition co-founder Jane Rosenthal throughout an look on the NAB Present in Las Vegas. The challenge’s presence on HBO’s 2025 slate was simply revealed in late-March.
Opening evening shall be June 4 on the Beacon Theatre, and the competition is scheduled to run via June 15. Further programming, spanning movie, music, TV, audio storytelling, talks, video games, and immersive media, shall be introduced within the coming weeks.
“For almost 25 years, the Tribeca Competition has celebrated the artists who give New York its coronary heart and soul, and on the opening evening of the 2025 competition, we’re thrilled to honor Billy Joel – an artist who has embodied that very spirit,” Rosenthal mentioned in a press release. “Paying tribute to the legendary performer who captured the essence of a ‘New York State of Thoughts’ is an ideal strategy to kick off this 12 months’s celebration of creativity and inspiration.”
Joel, 75, wrapped up a profitable residency at Madison Sq. Backyard final July, ending a 10-year run of sold-out month-to-month exhibits. A number of weeks in the past, he postponed a deliberate tour, citing an unspecified well being difficulty.
The HBO unique two-parter is billed as “an expansive portrait of the life and music of Billy Joel, exploring the love, loss, and private struggles that gas his songwriting.” The challenge’s administrators and producers, Susan Lacy (HBO’s Jane Fonda in 5 Acts and Spielberg) and Jessica Levin (HBO’s The Janes and Jane Fonda in 5 Acts) carried out in depth one-on-one interviews for the challenge. They had been granted entry to never-before-seen performances, residence motion pictures, and private pictures.
Lacy and Levin thanked Rosenthal and HBO, including their appreciation for Joel’s “belief in us to convey his story to the display. There is no such thing as a higher place for this movie to premiere than on the Beacon Theater, the venue for thus many historic musical occasions for many years, and within the metropolis so essential to Billy Joel.”
The documentary is slated to air on HBO and stream on Max this summer season after its Tribeca premiere.
