An ongoing series of mini profiles on the blog German Film @ Canada on the movers and shakers that make the Berlinale one of the most important events in the international film calendar: the filmmakers, programmers, curators, industry promoters and fans, from rookies to veterans.Name & role: Mark Peranson, Berlinale head programmer.
This is my 1st Berlinale as head programmer but my 16th at the festival, which I have attended at a jury member (in 2004 on the FIPRESCI jury), a critic (for Toronto's Cinema Scope), a programmer (for the Vancouver and Locarno film festivals), a filmmaker (La última película, which I made together with Raya Martin, screened in Forum Expanded in 2013), and as kind of an actor (in Hong Sangsoo’s On the Beach at Night Alone, which played in Competition in 2017)…I also previously moderated discussions for the Forum. So, I think I have a good handle on what goes on at the festival, even if it’s the first year that I’m behind the scenes full-time, officially since July 2019.
Berlinale AD Carlo Chatrian announced a new structure when he put together his programming team – smaller, all freelancers focused on curation not administration, “a group of discoverers”. How was the first round of collaboration in the selection committee?
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