Long Island is staking its claim at this year’s Tribeca Festival, which features four films by or about creative artists from the region.

The festival, formerly known as the Tribeca Film Festival, runs June 4 through 15 at various venues in Manhattan.

The opening-night selection is "Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” a two-part documentary on the Hicksville-raised singer. The comedy-drama "Lemonade Blessing,” whose writer-director and star hail from Suffolk County, screens the following day.  On June 7, the festival will screen "Westhampton,” a drama about a guilt-ridden filmmaker (Finn Wittrock) from writer-director Christian Nilsson, originally of East Moriches. On June 11, the festival will play "The Sixth Borough,” a documentary on Long Island’s major contributions to hip-hop.

The high-profile slot for Joel’s documentary shows how much the star has risen in prominence over the last decade. Previous opening-night titles have included the splashy Hollywood musical "In the Heights” and a documentary of the fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. "And So It Goes,” named for Joel’s 1989 ballad, traces the singer’s arc from Long Island piano-man to an international superstar, able to sell out nearly 10 years’ worth of monthly shows at Madison Square Garden. Its directors are Susan Lacy, creator of the PBS series "American Masters,” and Jessica Levin, according to Tribeca Festival.

The film "pulls back the curtain on Joel’s private world with unreleased performances, intimate home movies, and behind-the-scenes moments that have remained locked away until now,” according to a description at the festival's website. It will air later this summer on HBO.

Joel, who recently canceled all upcoming live performances and revealed a diagnosis of the brain disorder known as normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), will not attend the screening, according to his representative. NPH, in which excess fluid accumulates in the brain’s cavities, can cause memory problems and difficulty walking, and impact vision and hearing.

"Lemonade Blessing,” a coming-of-age story about a Long Island Catholic schoolboy (Jake Ryan) who falls for a sacrilegious rebel (Skye Alyssa Friedman), was written and directed by Chris Merola, who attended Kellenberg Memorial High School in Uniondale. Roughly 20% of the film was shot on Long Island, Merola, 27, said, including in his mother’s house in North Massapequa, where he grew up and a nearby section of the Bethpage Bikeway. Ryan, the star, is also homegrown, from Suffolk County. (The actor declined, through a representative, to be more specific.)

"When we first hung out, we went to the AMC” in Smithtown, Merola said of Ryan, who has also appeared in Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City." "There's a New York neurosis to people where they just move and groove a little faster,” Merola added. "I think he's got that.”

"The Sixth Borough” comes from executive producers Julian Petty, of Amityville, and Andrew Theodorakis, of Stony Brook. Roughly seven years in the making, the film features interviews with Chuck D, Method Man, Rakim and other Long Island rappers who put their stamp on hip-hop as the genre was beginning to spread from New York City to the rest of the country.

Petty, 48, said he had a personal connection to De La Soul’s late member David "Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur, who sometimes sat him down for haircuts when he was young. "Those haircuts changed my life, I went to school feeling 10 times taller,” Petty said. Later, after becoming an entertainment attorney, Petty helped the band reacquire the masters to their recordings, he said.

"I love that this film is playing at Tribeca, a New York festival,” Petty said. "I know that it’s reach is the world, but it seems like home. We’re elated.”