Occupation Film director Name Cate Shortland | Role Director Spouse Tony Kravitz | |
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Movies Lore, Somersault, The Silence, Flowergirl, Pentuphouse Similar People Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, Rachel Seiffert, Kai Malina, Adam Arkapaw | ||
Director cate shortland and saskia rosendhal of lore at the toronto international film festival 2012
Cate Shortland (born 10 August 1968) is an Australian writer and director of film and television.
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- Director cate shortland and saskia rosendhal of lore at the toronto international film festival 2012
- Cate shortland lore sydney film festival 2012
- Early life
- Career
- Feature films
- Personal life
- Filmography
- Cate shortland on writing directing screen nsw female storytellers
- References
Cate shortland lore sydney film festival 2012
Early life
Shortland was born in Temora, New South Wales. She graduated from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, where she received the Southern Star Award for most promising student.
Career
She has created several award winning short films: Strap on Olympia (1995); Pentuphouse (1998); Flower Girl (2000); and Joy (2000)
Cate spent three years directing episodes of the Network Ten television series, The Secret Life of Us.
Feature films
In 2004 she released her debut feature-length film, Somersault (2004), which was entered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Her second feature, Lore, had its Australian premiere at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival. It won at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2012 the Prix du Public UBS. In November the film won the Bronze Horse for best film at the Stockholm International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Australian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
In 2015 she announced she was working on a third feature film, Berlin Syndrome. Based on the book of the same name by Melanie Joosten the film starred Teresa Palmer as an Australian photojournalist who becomes imprisoned in the apartment of a man she has a one-night stand with. The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Personal life
Shortland is a convert to Judaism. She married filmmaker Tony Krawitz in 2009, and they have two adopted children.