Wilma Labate
Wilma Labate ( born December 4, 1949 in Rome) is an Italian documentary filmmaker and film director.
Life
Labate graduated in philosophy and worked as a film editor at the RAI; in addition, she organized theater performances and cultural festivals, writing articles for " Unione Sarda " and took over organizational tasks for the Film Festival in Venice. As a director, she devoted herself primarily to the documentary; She debuted in 1982 with the medium length Una notte a Roma. With these films, it was represented in specialized cinemas and on television; In feature films, she assisted Damiano Damiani Ettore Scola and. For Renault, she was active as an industrial and Werbefilmerin.
1992, by Ambrogio with her feature film debut, the story of a boy to become an overseas cruiser with the dream captain in the 1950s. It followed her probably the most important film, La mia generazione (1996). The story of a terrorist and his wife and a police officer in the crisis-ridden Italy of the 1980s was occupied prominent with Claudio Amendola, Silvio Orlando and Francesca Neri. In addition to directing the camera work was highlighted. The 2000 published Domenica did not find the commercial success he deserved, whereupon Labate again turned to documentary projects. Followed in 2007 by the far last feature film, Signorina Effe, which was nominated for several awards.