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.
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She made her feature film debut in 1992 with ''Ambrogio'', for which she was nominated
best new director at the 1994
Nastri d'Argento.
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 Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
s for Best Foreign Film.
Her last film, ''
Signorina Effe'', premiered at the 2007
Turin Film Festival
The Torino Film Festival (also called the Turin Film Festival, TFF) is an international film festival held annually in Turin, Italy. Held every November, it is the second largest film festival in Italy, following the Venice Film Festival. It was f ...
.
Labate is also an author and in 2005 co-wrote with
Fausto Bertinotti
Fausto Bertinotti (born 22 March 1940) is an Italian politician who led the Communist Refoundation Party (''Partito della Rifondazione Comunista'') from 1994 to 2006. On 29 April 2006, after the centre-left coalition's victory in the Italian ...
the autobiographical book ''Il ragazzo con la maglietta a strisce''.
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1949 births
Film directors from Rome
Living people
Italian screenwriters
Italian television directors