Juliane Lorenz began working as Fassbinder’s editor in 1977 and collaborated closely with him until his death in 1982. Since then she has been the editor for several different directors and has taught at the German Film and Television Academy as well as the College of Film and Television in Munich. Lorenz became the director of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation in 1992.

One of the leading figures of New German Cinema, Rainer Werner Fassbinder left an extensive body of work as well as a great many admirers and critics. Occasioned by a major U.S. retrospective of Fassbinder’s work, Life, Love & Celluloid focuses on the continued impact of his films. Among those who speak about their experiences of programming and watching his films are MoMA curators Mary Lea Bandy and Laurence Kardish; UCLA Film School director Robert Rosen; translators Christa Armstrong and Maria Pelikan; as well as Armin Armani, a drama student at the Actors Studio in NY, who is encountering Fassbinder’s films for the first time.