Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined former Vice President Al Gore and film director Rob Reiner to kick off the 12-day TriBeCa Film Festival in Lower Manhattan this afternoon.
The festival is focused on saving mother earth this year, with dozens of short films about protecting the environment scheduled to be shown and a huge summer charity concert called Live Earth being promoted.
"We have to make the tough choices today so that we can leave our children a greener, greater New York for tomorrow," said Bloomberg.
"We are close to that tipping point of where the climate crisis is concerned, where people in every profession will say, ‘okay let’s solve this,’” said Gore.
"We are film makers not scientists. However, film is about culture, and filmmakers can be agents of cultural change,” said the festival’s Jane Rosenthal.
Politics also took center stage at the event. Even though both Bloomberg and Gore have insisted they are not running for president in 2008, Bloomberg said that Gore would made a good contender.
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