Wilma Labate (born 4 December 1949) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Wilma Labate
Born	(1949-12-04) December 4, 1949 (age 72) Rome
Occupation	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.[1]

She made her feature film debut in 1992 with Ambrogio, for which she was nominated best new director at the 1994 Nastri d'Argento.[2] 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.[1] Her last film, Signorina Effe, premiered at the 2007 Turin Film Festival.[1]

Labate is also an author and in 2005 co-wrote with Fausto Bertinotti the autobiographical book Il ragazzo con la maglietta a strisce.[1]

References

External links

• Wilma Labate at IMDb