Tribeca Film Festival co-founder and recent Variety cover star Jane Rosenthal hosted the annual Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program luncheon with the legacy fashion house on June 6.
Miley Cyrus attended just hours before her world premiere of “Something Beautiful,” The project places the pop-music icon in the director’s chair along with Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter.
“Throughout my career, my story has been told from so many lenses outside of myself and from so many perspectives outside of myself. I’ve been shot by so many photographers and directors and never been able to actually get behind the lens and see myself in the way that I do,” Cyrus told Variety on the carpet. “That’s something that makes it feel like really special and really intimate because I’ve never really gotten to actually tell my story in a way that really is this first person.”
Having also produced “Something Beautiful,” Cyrus reflected on the “deep devotion” to the project she had as a filmmaker over the last couple of years during production. Even as an international superstar, the artist revealed to Variety, “I still get that butterfly feeling, but it’s a very beautiful feeling this time.”
While the Grammy winner and Golden Globe nominee is wearing many hats this week in New York, she also revealed that she is not there to concentrate on festival accolades or other possible awards season honors.
“I never think of the trophies on the mind. I just want to impact people,” Cyrus said. “It’s not my pot of gold.’
Inside the starry event, Chanel ambassadors Riley Keough and Whitney Peak joined Rosenthal along with “The White Lotus” stars Parker Posey and Carrie Coon. Other notables included Lucy Liu, Mariska Hargitay, Olivia Munn, Patty Jenkins, Beanie Feldstein, Zosia Mamet, Annie Murphy, Mira Sorvino, Odessa Rae, Francesca Scorsese, Gina Gammell and many more.
“It is special because it’s become its own community,” Rosenthal explained about the Through Her Lens program.
Before the luncheon, Hargitay also spoke to Variety about her North American premiere of “My Mom Jayne” at Carnegie Hall. The “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” actor and director’s film explores the untold story of her mother, Jayne Mansfield.
Hargitay being a part of the selected filmmakers chosen by the Chanel event for being inspirational for the next generation of female creatives got a little teary-eyed on the carpet.
“It’s everything,” she said about fostering fellow women in the arts. “It’s everything. Having that one person believe in you…when I think about the women who have believed in me and how I want to pay it forward. It can change the trajectory of a life. It does. Not can. It does.”
Chanel and Tribeca Festival continue to spotlight and connect with visionary female creatives in the industry. Together, they commemorate the evolution of the flagship program. Founded in 2015 in collaboration with Pulse Films, the mentorship program has triumphed for a decade by providing industry support, artistic development, and funding to emerging U.S.-based self-identifying women and non-binary filmmakers.
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