NEW YORK — Jon Hamm and Ray Romano are among the Hollywood heavyweights bringing star power to this year’s Tribeca Festival with new films set to make their world premieres.
Organizers of the annual New York City festival on Tuesday announced the lineup of feature-length and short films that will play during the 12-day event this June, with the highlights including the satirical “Corner Office” starring Hamm as “a straight-laced employee who retreats to a blissfully empty corner office to get away from his lackluster colleagues.”
Romano makes his directorial debut with “Somewhere in Queens,” a film about a New York father who grows more and more involved with his basketball-playing son.
Known for his stand-up comedy and an acting career that includes the sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” the Queens-born Romano also wrote and stars in “Somewhere in Queens.”
The festival’s closing night selection will be the world premiere of the documentary “Loudmouth,” which follows the life and career of the Rev. Al Sharpton and puts “a disruptive spotlight on the pastoral prodigy turned political firebrand turned media establishment figure,” organizers said.
The Tribeca Festival will also feature the lottery-focused comedy “Jerry & Marge Go Large” starring Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening; the Peter Dinklage-comedy “American Dreamer” about a scheming economics professor; and the romantic drama “Alone Together,” which stars and is written and directed by Katie Holmes.
Making its world premiere is the short documentary “John Leguizamo Live at Rikers,” which shows the titular comedian’s performance at the New York prison and explores the challenges of incarceration.
Overall, the Tribeca Festival selected 110 feature films, including 58 directed by women; 43 by Black, Indigenous, and people of color; and 10 by members of the LGBT community.
“This 2022 feature film program leaves us proud and humbled by the boundless ingenuity and passion of our indefatigable filmmaking community,” Cara Cusumano, the festival’s director and vice president of programming, said in a statement Tuesday.
“Whether a comedic breath of fresh air or a trenchant expose of the most urgent contemporary issues, this year’s official selections again remind us of the vitality and urgency of independent film in a world that needs it more than ever.”
Tuesday’s lineup reveal follows last week’s announcement that “Halftime,” a documentary capturing the career of the Bronx-born music superstar Jennifer Lopez, will be the festival’s opening night film.
The 2022 festival is set to run from June 8-19. It’s the second year in a row the event will take place in June after previously occurring earlier in the spring.
Co-founded by actor Robert De Niro and launched in 2002, the event was previously known as the Tribeca Film Festival, before being rebranded last year. In addition to movies, the Tribeca Festival features TV premieres and podcasts.
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