AP, NEW YORK, April 21: The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival is scheduled to open Wednesday night in New York, a stone's throw from where the World Trade Center towers once stood.
The festival plans a musical celebration, kicking things off with Cameron Crowe's documentary "The Union," about the collaboration between Elton John and Leon Russell. John will follow the film with a brief performance.
Both the screening and the concert will be held outdoors and for free at the World Financial Plaza, though the threat of rain could push the festivities indoors.
Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff founded the Tribeca Film Festival in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to help revitalize its namesake neighborhood and downtown Manhattan.
