An Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature created intense pressure and anxiety about how to follow a landmark film. Well-meaning encouragement to “retire” and the sense that nothing could top the prior win increased uncertainty. Observing patterns among past documentary winners suggested that coping with the award and figuring out what comes next can be difficult. That uncertainty, along with the looming legacy of Navalny, motivated the creation of a new project. The new film, Tuner, centers on a talented piano tuner whose meticulous skills lead to an unexpected aptitude for safe cracking. The story blends crime elements with hearing-impaired characters and romance, while reflecting personal self-discovery.
"You felt like after winning the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for "Navalny," your career was done. Why is that? There's a great deal of pressure that comes with achieving so much, in my case, at such a young age. How do you follow up a film like "Navalny"? How do I follow up winning an Oscar compounded by the fact that I was in a head space where routinely I'd have well-wishers with good intentions saying, "How are you going to follow this one up...Wow, you should just retire now...There's no beating this one.""
"As well-intentioned those comments may have been, it made me very anxious. If you look at the history of who's won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, you know there's a pattern of people winning that award who are struggling to cope with it and figure out what to do next. Consequently, I coped with that unknowingness and the looming specter that was this movie, this award and the legacy of Navalny. That's when I started writing "Tuner"."
"I sort of channeled... he delved into a unique narrative world creating a tale of a talented piano tuner's (Leo Woodall) meticulous skills leading him to discover an unexpected aptitude for safe cracking while turning his life and everyone around him upside down. The result was "Tuner.""
"Roher reflected on his previous Oscar win, the events that led him to creating a crime thriller tackling elements of hearing-impaired characters and melting it with romance, all while embracing his own journey of self-discovery."
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