French screenwriter and director (born 1976)
Alice Winocour
Born (1976-01-13 ) 13 January 1976 (age 48) Occupation(s) Film director, screenwriter Years active 2003–present
Alice Winocour (born 13 January 1976) is a French screenwriter and director .[ 1]
Life and career
Winocour was born in Paris , France, to a Jewish family.[ 2] After studying screenwriting at La Fémis , Winocour made three short films and wrote the script for Vladimir Perisic's film Ordinary People (released in 2009).[ 3]
Winocour's first feature film, Augustine , based on the relationship between Professor Charcot and his patient Augustine, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 as part of the Critics' Week .[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] Her second directorial film Maryland was selected to be screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival .[ 7]
Winocour also co-wrote the film Mustang with Deniz Gamze Ergüven . It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival .[ 8] The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards .[ 9]
She was named as a member of the jury of the Critics' Week section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival .[ 10]
Her 2019 film Proxima premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival ,[ 11] where it received an honourable mention from the Platform Prize jury.[ 12]
Filmography
References
^ "Alice Winocour Réalisatrice et scénariste française" . Le Figaro. Retrieved 28 November 2013 .
^ "From Titanic to Taxi Driver, TIFF filmmakers share the works that inspired them" .
^ Stéphane Delorme, Possession , entretien avec Alice Winocour, Cahiers du cinéma , n° 683, novembre 2012, p. 29
^ Scott, A. O. (16 May 2013). "Doctor and Patient: A Gothic Love Story" . The New York Times . Retrieved 28 November 2013 .
^ Robbins, Jonathan (16 May 2013). "Discover: Alice Winocour Pulls the Strings in "Augustine" " . Film Society Lincoln Centre. Retrieved 28 November 2013 .
^ Tehrani, Bijan. " "I wanted the film to be sensual ", Alice Winocour, director of AUGUSTINE" . Cinema Without Borders. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2013 .
^ "2015 Official Selection" . Cannes . Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015 .
^ "The Directors' Fortnight 2015 selection!" . Quinzaine des Réalisateurs . Archived from the original on 23 April 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2015 .
^ Richford, Rhonda (22 September 2015). "Oscars: France Selects 'Mustang' As Foreign-Language Submission" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 22 September 2015 .
^ "Jury 2016" . Semaine de la Critique de Cannes . Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2015 .
^ Jordan Mintzer, "'Proxima': Film Review | TIFF 2019" . The Hollywood Reporter , September 6, 2019.
^ "The film Martin Eden wins TIFF’s Platform Prize" . Toronto Star , September 13, 2019.
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