Berlinale Director Tricia Tuttle Appoints Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz as Film Programming Co-Directors
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent New Berlin Film Festival director Tricia Tuttle has appointed two in-house programmers as co-directors of film programming as she puts a new executive team in place.
Jacqueline Lyanga, a former U.S. delegate to the Berlinale, and Panorama section chief Michael Stütz will take on these duties in July.
This amounts to an expanded role for Stütz who will continue to head the Panorama strand, dedicated to new trends and new voices in international filmmaking, alongside his new position as co-director of film programming.
The new Berlinale co-directors of film programming will work with Tuttle to select titles for the Competition and Berlinale Special sections, including the Berlinale Special Gala, and they will “lead the wider team to shape an overall film selection,” according to a statament. “Michael and Jacqueline bring a strong and complementary combination of skills and networks, and they are both hugely smart, collaborative creative leaders as well as passionate, generous cinephiles,” said Tuttle in the statement. “I can’t wait to work alongside them to shape dynamic Berlinale film programs,” she added.
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