Wilma Labate

Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1949)

Wilma Labate

Born	(1949-12-04) December 4, 1949 (age 74) Rome
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.