JAEGER-LECOULTRE & Film Society of Lincoln Centre name Alice Rohrwacher as the year’s Filmmaker in Residence
Jaeger-LeCoultre and the Film Society of Lincoln Center announce the selection of award-winning writer and director Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, New York Film Festival 2014 and Corpo Celeste, New York Film Festival 2011) as their 2016 Filmmaker in Residence, the fourth annual initiative and partnership between the two organizations.
Past recipients include directors Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier), Lisandro Alonso (Jauja), and Andrea Arnold (Red Road, Fish Tank), whose residency project American Honey will premiere in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
“With Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, which was developed at our first Filmmaker in Residence three years ago, debuting this week, we are thrilled to unveil the name of our next artist in residence,” said Film Society of Lincoln Center Deputy Director Eugene Hernandez. “A distinctive filmmaker with a warm, infectious spirit, Alice Rohrwacher is one of international cinema’s brightest lights, and throughout her career we have championed her work at the Film Society. We are excited to be able to offer Alice an opportunity to finish writing her next feature film, My Bitter Land, in New York this fall and equally excited to welcome her back to the New York Film Festival where she will connect with other filmmakers and also engage with students and emerging artists.”
“I can’t imagine a better gift than to spend time in New York, take part in the events at the New York Film Festival, and to have the time to research in local archives and libraries for my next film,” said Alice Rohrwacher. “It was 2011 when I crossed the ocean, for the first time in my life, to present my debut feature Corpo Celeste at NYFF, so New York is very much interconnected with the festival for me. I vividly remember my first impressions of the city – like taking part in an archaeological mission into the future. Where I live, to the contrary, we dig underground into the past. This clash of past vs. future, vertical vs. underground will be fascinating to me and my work.”
During her residency in New York, Alice Rohrwacher will continue to write her third feature film, My Bitter Land, about the adventures of a man living on the margins of his society who can seemingly travel through time.
