Jan Schütte is a visiting faculty member in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. His most recent film SuperTex premiered at the San Sebastian and Toronto film festivals in 2003 to critical acclaim and won several awards. Schütte studied German literature, philosophy and history of art in Tübingen and Zürich, and received his MA in Hamburg. After a short time as a reporter for television he debuted his first feature film Dragon Chow in 1987. The black-and-white tragic comedy opened at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Premio Cinecritica. The film was invited to more than fifty festivals and won numerous international awards including the Prix François Truffaut, Prix Unesco, and the German Film Prize. He continued directing feature films including Winckelmann’s Travels (1990), Bye Bye America (1994), Fat World (1998), The Farewell (2000), Old Love (2001) and SuperTex (2003), as well as highly praised documentaries and filmic essays such as Lost in America (1988), To Patagonia (1991), and A Voyage into the Innermost of Vienna (1995). Schütte has taught as a professor at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 1994. In collaboration with his fellow director Peter Sehr he developed and currently runs the Masterclass of the Academie du Film Franco-Allemand in Ludwigsburg and Paris. He is a member of the Academie for Arts in Berlin and the European Film Academy. In 2002, Schütte was member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, along with Martin Scorsese, Abbas Kiarostami, and Tilda Swinton.