On a Thursday evening in the penthouse of New York’s Greenwich Hotel, Jane Rosenthal stood in front of a small audience — a mix of emerging filmmakers, program alumni, jury members and mentors — for this year’s Through Her Lens : The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program.

With the room packed in almost shoulder-to-shoulder, and on the heels of a welcome message from Bryce Norbitz, vp of Tribeca Studios and artist development at Tribeca Enterprises, expressing gratitude for a program that is able to “keep pushing forward opportunities for women, non-binary filmmakers in our industry,” especially when “it’s a challenge.” Rosenthal took a moment to remind the five filmmakers and their teams participating in the program of what they’d already achieved just by being in the room.

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