Wilma Labate
Wilma Labate | |
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| Born | December 4, 1949 |
| Occupation(s) | film director and screenwriter |
Wilma Labate (born 4 December 1949) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Born in Rome, Labate started her career as a television director, then in the 1980s she worked in the field of documentary filmmaking industry.[1]
She made her feature film debut in 1992 with Ambrogio, for which she was nominated best new director at the 1994 Nastri d'Argento.[2] In 1996, her film La mia generazione won the Grolla d'oro for best film and was the Italian candidate in the race for the 1997 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film.[1] Her last film, Signorina Effe, premiered at the 2007 Turin Film Festival.[1]
Labate is also an author and in 2005 co-wrote with Fausto Bertinotti the autobiographical book Il ragazzo con la maglietta a strisce.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. Catalogo dei viventi. Marsilio, 2009. ISBN 978-88-317-9599-9.
- ^ "Oggi i Nastri d'argento". La Repubblica. 19 March 1994. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
External links
- Wilma Labate at IMDb