Alfonso Cuarón and Chaitanya Tamhane

Rolex Mentor and Protégé in Film, 2016-2017

For Indian protégé Chaitanya Tamhane, his mentoring year with Academy-award winning film director Alfonso Cuarón was a stroke of fortune. He describes his mentor’s image-based film-making as “like watching magic”. Tamhane says his approach to cinema will never be the same again.