Cate Shortland was born on August 10, 1968 in Temora, New South Wales, Australia. She is a director and writer, known for Lore (2012), Somersault (2004) and Joy (2000).
Being in a shop and the 18-year-old girl behind the counter saying to me, 'Are you Cate? I saw your film', and then saying how much it affected them, or that they've seen it twice, or that they cried - that's enough to make anyone happy.
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One of the hardest things for me is having to discuss, quote unquote, the state of Australian cinema. I don't want to talk about that, because I'm a film-maker. I don't make films for any reason outside of personal ones. I feel like a fraud if I talk about the industry, because my industry is me and the people I work with and a couple of film-makers. It's not a factory.
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...we came from backgrounds where gender roles were really strong. My dad was a truck driver and my mum worked and had to look after the kids and do all the housework. That was totally accepted and even today if I see my dad wash a dish it makes me really uncomfortable.
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Fairy tales have an awful underlying violence to them. I think women relate to them because walking through the streets at night, you often feel scared. In fairy tales women are always pursued, or they're lost and they have to be rescued. They have this real erotic, dark element that was really influential when we looked at the film. It wasn't on the page, it was something we created.
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Grew up in Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Berlin Syndrome
2017
Lore
2012
The Silence
2006
TV Movie
Somersault
2004
The Secret Life of Us
2001-2003
TV Series 10 episodes
Bad Cop, Bad Cop
2002-2003
TV Series 4 episodes
Joy
2000
Short
Flowergirl
1999
Short
Pentuphouse
1998
Short
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Slap
TV Mini-Series series writer - 1 episode, 2011 written by - 1 episode, 2011
Somersault
2004
written by
Joy
2000
Short
Flowergirl
1999
Short writer
Pentuphouse
1998
Short writer
The Kettering Incident
TV Series additional material - 1 episode, 2016 written by - 1 episode, 2016
Deadline Gallipoli
2015
TV Mini-Series written by - 1 episode
Devil's Playground
2014
TV Mini-Series written by - 1 episode
Lore
2012
written by
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Kettering Incident
2016
TV Series story consultant - 3 episodes
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Film '72
2013
TV Series
Herself
The 2004 Australian Film Institute Awards
2004
TV Special
Herself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2015
Awgie Award
Australian Writers' Guild
Television Mini Series Original
Deadline Gallipoli (2015)
2013
ADG Award
Australian Directors Guild
Best Direction in a Feature Film
Lore (2012)
2013
AFCA Award
Australian Film Critics Association Awards
Best Director
Lore (2012)
2013
AFCA Award
Australian Film Critics Association Awards
Best Screenplay
Lore (2012)
2013
Awgie Award
Australian Writers' Guild
Feature Film - Adaptation
Lore (2012)
2013
Tiantian Award
Beijing International Film Festival
Best Director
Lore (2012)
2013
Special Jury Award
Beijing Student Film Festival
Lore (2012)
2013
FCCA Award
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Best Director
Lore (2012)
2013
Breaking Waves Award
Titanic International Film Festival
Lore (2012)
2013
Aurora Award
Tromsø International Film Festival
Lore (2012)
2012
Awgie Award
Australian Writers' Guild
Television Mini-Series - Adaptation
The Slap (2011)
2012
Critics Award
Hamburg Film Festival
Lore (2012)
2012
Golden Starfish Award
Hamptons International Film Festival
Narrative Feature
Lore (2012)
2012
Jeremy Nussbaum Prize for Provocative Fiction
Hamptons International Film Festival
Lore (2012)
2012
Hessian Film Award
Hessian Film Award
Feature Film (Spielfilm)
Lore (2012)
2012
Audience Award
Locarno International Film Festival
Lore (2012)
2012
Bronze Horse
Stockholm Film Festival
Best Film
Lore (2012)
2012
The Best Director Award
TheWIFTS Foundation International Visionary Awards
$950,000
