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.
[Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. .]
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 Awards for Best Foreign Film.
In 2007, her fil ''
Miss F'', premiered at the
Turin Film Festival.
After a series of documentarie, in 2021 Labate returned to narrative films with ''
The Girl Flew'', which premiered at the
78th Venice International Film Festival.
Labate is also an author and in 2005 co-wrote with
Fausto Bertinotti 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