Wilma Labate (born 4 December 1949) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Wilma Labate | |
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| Born | December 4, 1949 |
| Occupation(s) | 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] In 2007, her fil Miss F, premiered at the Turin Film Festival.[1] After a series of documentarie, in 2021 Labate returned to narrative films with The Girl Flew, which premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.[3]
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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Zappoli, Giancarlo (3 September 2021). "La ragazza ha volato". Mymovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 29 July 2024.
External links
edit- Wilma Labate at IMDb