Age: 57
female
Cate Shortland (born 10 August 1968) is an Australian director and screenwriter. She received international acclaim for her 2004 romantic drama film Somersault, her 2012 historical drama film Lore, and her 2017 psychological thriller film Berlin Syndrome. She is best known for directing the 2021 superhero film Black Widow. Shortland was born in Temora, New South Wales. She graduated from the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School, where she received the Southern Star Award for most promising student. 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. She directed the Australian television film The Silence. Her second feature, Lore, had its Australian premiere at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival. It won at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2012 the Prix du Public UBS. 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 with whom she has a one-night stand. The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. In July 2018, Shortland was announced as the director of the 2021 Black Widow film for Marvel Studios. Shortland is a convert to Judaism. She married filmmaker Tony Krawitz in 2009, and they have two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cate Shortland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cate Shortland
Director
for Director in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
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Abandoned by their father as kids, two young brothers try to resurrect their mother, who died from a terminal illness. To do this the brothers use alchemy - a science which allows the user to transform matter from one form to another. However, human transmutation is strictly forbidden and cannot be carried out successfully. The brothers experience this as the younger brother looses his entire bother, while the older brother only looses his leg for the transmutation of their mother and his arm for the retrieval of his brother's soul. Determined to get their bodies back, Edward joins the military as a state alchemist and the brothers begin their search for the philosopher's stone. During their journey, they discover the truth about the country's history, and the conspiracy at the higher levels of the military and take it upon themselves to save the country's future.
