The Tribeca Festival is combining its games and immersive verticals and promoting Casey Baltes to oversee the merged entity.The upping of Baltes follows the departure of longtime Tribeca Immersive curator and VP Loren Hammonds.
The two arenas, which have had a home at Tribeca over the past decade, are part of the festival’s effort to reach beyond traditional film. (It formally dropped the word “film” from its official name last year.) The unified section will be part of the next edition of Tribeca, which is slated for June 8 to 19, 2022.“The lines between immersive cinematic and gaming experiences are rapidly blurring,” said Jane Rosenthal, CEO and co-founder of the festival and its parent, Tribeca Enterprises. “Combining these two
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