Wilma_Labate

Wilma Labate

Wilma Labate

Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1949)

Wilma Labate (born 4 December 1949) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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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

  1. [1]
    Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. Catalogo dei viventi. Marsilio, 2009. ISBN 978-88-317-9599-9.
  2. [2]
    "Oggi i Nastri d'argento". La Repubblica. 19 March 1994. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
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