Jane Campion
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| Jane Campion | |
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| Born | 30 April 1954 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Spouse(s) | Colin Englert (1992-divorced) |
Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a film maker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States. Campion is one of only four women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director (she was the second).
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[edit] Early life
Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, the daughter of Edith, an actress, and Richard Campion, a theater and opera director.[1] She graduated in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, and with a painting major at the Sydney College of the Arts in Australia in 1979.
[edit] Career
Campion started making films in the early 80s at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
Her first short film, Peel (1982) won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, and other awards followed for the shorts Passionless Moments (1983) and Girls Own Story (1984). Sweetie (1989) was her feature debut, and won international awards. Further recognition followed with An Angel at my Table (1990), an autobiographical and psychological portrayal of the New Zealand poet Janet Frame. International recognition followed with another Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival for The Piano,[2] which won the best director award from the Australian Film Institute and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1994. At the 66th Academy Awards, she was the second woman ever to be nominated best director.
Campion's work since that time has tended to polarize opinion. The Portrait of a Lady (1996), based on the Henry James novel, featured Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey and Martin Donovan. Holy Smoke! (1999) teamed Campion again with Harvey Keitel, this time with Kate Winslet as the female lead. In the Cut (2003), an erotic thriller based on Susanna Moore's bestseller, provided Meg Ryan an opportunity to depart from her more familiar onscreen persona. Her 2009 film Bright Star, a biographical drama about poet John Keats (played by Ben Whishaw) and his lover Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), was shown at the Cannes Film Festival.
Campion was an executive producer for the 2006 documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story.
[edit] Personal life
She has a daughter named Alice, born in 1993.
In February of 2010, Indian media reports quoted Campion as saying that she had been sexually harassed along with two other directors at the India International Women's Film Festival in New Delhi by Bhaskar Deb, the husband of the festival director. Campion, however, issued a statement saying that while the sexual harassment charge was misrepresented, she had indeed been very badly treated by the organisers of the 5th Indian International Women’s Film Festival. In her statement she said, “I was not sexually harassed by the festival director's husband and did not make that allegation. However at least two other delegates I spoke to and a third I heard about, did have bad experiences with the festival director's husband and I hear they went on to make allegations of sexual harassment.” “My own experience of the organisers of the film festival was that they made promises to me which they failed to keep: failure to meet me or any of the other delegates that I spoke to on arrival at the airport, failure to pay for my airline tickets, cancelling the premiere of my film Bright Star at the last moment.” “Never in my entire experience has a film festival been so fraudulently presented and organised. It's a shame for the film makers, the audience, the funding bodies of the countries involved as well as the Indian government who, it appears from the advertising, sponsored them to some degree.”
The two directors who sent official complaints to the Indian authorities about sexual harassment are Ayesha Arif Khan from Pakistan and Lipika Pelham, a British-Bengali journalist and filmmaker based in Jerusalem. Other delegates have also complained to the Director General of Police, Delhi, and the Indian Information and Broadcasting ministry, about serious mismanagement, fraud and misbehaviour of the festival director, Shyamali Banerji and her husband, Bhaskar Deb. They include a Turkish actress, Derya Durmaz and four Turkish directors: Seckin Yasar, Handan Ozturk, Canan Gerede and Selda Cicek.
In her statement Jane Campion said, "I was keen to go to India because of my warm and long relationship with the country and fondness of my Indian friends, which remains untouched by this episode, even deepened as they have helped me to pursue a positive outcome."
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Director
- A Girl's Own Story (1984)
- Two Friends (1986)
- Sweetie (1989)
- An Angel at My Table (1990) — based on the autobiography of Janet Frame
- The Piano (1993)
- The Portrait of a Lady (1996) — based on the novel by Henry James
- Holy Smoke! (1999)
- In the Cut (2003) — based on the novel by Susanna Moore
- Bright Star (2009)
[edit] Producer
- Soft Fruit (2000)
- Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2006)
[edit] See also
[edit] Bibliography
- Ellen Cheshire. Jane Campion. London: Pocket Essentials, 2000
- V. W. Wexman. Jane Campion: Interviews. Roundhouse Publishing. 1999
- Deb Verhoeven. Jane Campion. London: Routledge, 2009
[edit] References
3.www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/...by.../Article1-512580.aspx
4. www.timesnow.tv/Abused-harassed-and-cheated/.../4339266.cms
5. tvnz.co.nz/...news/campion-not-sexually-harassed-in-india-3381347
[edit] External links
- Jane Campion's Agent
- Jane Campion at the Internet Movie Database
- Jane Campion Myspace Fan Page
- Jane Campion at Allmovie
- Jane Campion Bibliography (via UC Berkeley
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
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