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 formerU.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 thePanorama 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 CompetitionandBerlinale Special sections, including theBerlinale SpecialGala, and they will “lead the wider team to shape an overall film selection,” according to a statament.