Cate Shortland is an Australian film director and screenwriter, who is best known for her films: Somersault, Lore, and Berlin Syndrome. For Disney, she directed the 2021 Marvel Studios film Black Widow.
Early life[]
Born in Temora, New South Wales, Australia, Shortland graduated from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, where she received the Southern Star Award for most promising student.
Career[]
Shortland has created several award-winning short films Strap on Olympia (1995); Pentuphouse (1998); Flower Girl (2000); and Joy (2000). She spent three years directing episodes of the Network Ten television series The Secret Life of Us. In 2004, Shortland 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 the Prix du Public UBS at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2012.
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, Shortland 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.
Filmography[]
| Year | Title | Director | Executive Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Black Widow | Yes | No |
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