biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1954– )
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Waikanae, New Zealand. She studied at art school in Wellington and at the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School in Sydney, the city where she is now based. Her films include Peel (1984), which won the 1986 Cannes Palme d'Or for best short film, her highly original first feature Sweetie (1989), and An Angel at My Table (1990), based on Janet Frame's autobiographies. The Piano (1993), a love story set in colonial New Zealand, which she wrote as well as directed, shared the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, the first such award for an Australian production and the first for a woman director. Later films include The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and Holy Smoke (1999). |
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