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Berlin Blues: How Can The Berlin Film Festival Be Revitalized?
Film & TV Biz Looks To New Berlinale Era With Tricia Tuttle As Carlo Chatrian & Mariette Rissenbeek’s Co-Reign Comes To An End
Execs are constantly thinking about potential tweaks to the film calendar and this respected veteran posited that the EFM and Berlin would benefit from some kind of festival and/or market programming tie-up with Sundance, which takes place just weeks before. Beyond the selection, Chatrian and Rissenbeek’s co-stewardship has come under scrutiny in recent weeks amid charges of weak management over how they dealt with the backlash against opening night invites to members of Germany’s far-right AfD party as well as their response to the Israel-Gaza Crisis. He added that Tuttle’s American roots – even if she has lived in the UK for much of her adult life – also make her a fitting choice given the fact the Berlinale was the brainchild of a U.S. officer stationed in Berlin with the Allied High Commission for Germany in 1950, who floated the idea and then secured U.S. backing for the first editions.
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