Cate Shortland
Birth : 1968-08-10, Temora, New South Wales, Australia
History
Cate Shortland is an Australian writer and director of film and television.
She was born 10 August 1968 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.
She has created several award winning short films:
Strap on Olympia (1995); Pentuphouse (1998); Flower Girl (2000); Joy (2000)
Cate spent three years directing episodes of the television series, The Secret Life Of Us.
In 2004 she released her debut feature length film, Somersault (2004), which was entered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
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Join Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour and more on a journey behind-the-scenes of "Black Widow".
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Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
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A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
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A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
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Lore leads her four younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos she encounters a mysterious refugee who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire.
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Lore leads her four younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos she encounters a mysterious refugee who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire.
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Harry really wants a rabbit. Harry's Dad really wants his wife back. And somehow in the middle of all this wanting, they both seem to have forgotten that they already have each other.
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A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murders.
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Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.
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Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.
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An adolescent girl's journey of self-discovery set in the garish twilight world of Sydney's late night shopping malls and rooftops.
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An adolescent girl's journey of self-discovery set in the garish twilight world of Sydney's late night shopping malls and rooftops.
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Daisuke, Hana and Tetsu are three young Japanese sharing an apartment at Bondi Beach in Sydney. After a year of carefree living, Daisuke has to return to Osaka to work in his father's butcher shop. He is secretly in love with his flatmate Hana. A lyrical vignette of final days and home videos.
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Daisuke, Hana and Tetsu are three young Japanese sharing an apartment at Bondi Beach in Sydney. After a year of carefree living, Daisuke has to return to Osaka to work in his father's butcher shop. He is secretly in love with his flatmate Hana. A lyrical vignette of final days and home videos.
Assistant Director Trainee
Fear of an unidentified livestock predator unites an Australian couple, an outcast, and an abandoned woman.
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Della, a 45-year-old wanna-be, coulda-been jazz singer and her lover, Dale, a 23 year old small time criminal, are in the final stages of their dysfunctional relationship.
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Della, a 45-year-old wanna-be, coulda-been jazz singer and her lover, Dale, a 23 year old small time criminal, are in the final stages of their dysfunctional relationship.
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Olympia's journey continues. Men expect youth, beautiful bodies and sex partners from women. Thinking this, Olympia takes advantage of her young and beautiful body to sign a mistress contract with a rich but vulgar old man. However, something arises inside her that she cannot resist, so she breaks the contract and sets off on a journey. On her journey, she also encounters men who look at her as if they value her. She sets up her own extreme show to strike back at these men. But how much of it was reality and how much of it was her fantasy... From the fantastic intro, a world of beauty supported by a strong sense of style unfolds. The strength of the visuals gives the simple story a fullness.
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Olympia's journey continues. Men expect youth, beautiful bodies and sex partners from women. Thinking this, Olympia takes advantage of her young and beautiful body to sign a mistress contract with a rich but vulgar old man. However, something arises inside her that she cannot resist, so she breaks the contract and sets off on a journey. On her journey, she also encounters men who look at her as if they value her. She sets up her own extreme show to strike back at these men. But how much of it was reality and how much of it was her fantasy... From the fantastic intro, a world of beauty supported by a strong sense of style unfolds. The strength of the visuals gives the simple story a fullness.
