Alice Winocour
{{short description|French screenwriter and director (born 1976)}}
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| name = Alice Winocour
| image = Alice Winocour césars 2016.jpg
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| birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1976|1|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
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| occupation = Film director, screenwriter
| years_active = 2003–present
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Alice Winocour (born 13 January 1976) is a French screenwriter and director.{{cite web|title=Alice Winocour Réalisatrice et scénariste française|url=http://evene.lefigaro.fr/celebre/biographie/alice-winocour-144849.php|publisher=Le Figaro|accessdate=28 November 2013}}
Life and career
Winocour was born in Paris, France, to a Jewish family.{{Cite web|url=https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/from-titanic-to-taxi-driver-tiff-filmmakers-share-the-works-that-inspired-them|title = From Titanic to Taxi Driver, TIFF filmmakers share the works that inspired them}} After studying screenwriting at La Fémis, Winocour made three short films and wrote the script for Vladimir Perisic's film Ordinary People (released in 2009).Stéphane Delorme, Possession, entretien avec Alice Winocour, Cahiers du cinéma, n° 683, novembre 2012, p. 29
Winocour's first feature film, Augustine, based on the relationship between Professor Charcot and his patient Augustine, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 as part of the Critics' Week.{{cite news|last=Scott|first=A. O.|title=Doctor and Patient: A Gothic Love Story|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/movies/augustine-by-alice-winocour-featuring-soko.html|accessdate=28 November 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 May 2013}}{{cite web|last=Robbins|first=Jonathan|title=Discover: Alice Winocour Pulls the Strings in "Augustine"|date=16 May 2013|url=http://www.filmlinc.com/blog/entry/interview-alice-winocour-augustine|publisher=Film Society Lincoln Centre|accessdate=28 November 2013}}{{cite web|last=Tehrani|first=Bijan|title="I wanted the film to be sensual ", Alice Winocour, director of AUGUSTINE|url=http://cinemawithoutborders.com/conversations/3346-alice-winocour-augustine.html|publisher=Cinema Without Borders|accessdate=28 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322050711/http://cinemawithoutborders.com/conversations/3346-alice-winocour-augustine.html|archive-date=22 March 2013|url-status=dead}} Her second directorial film Maryland was selected to be screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/61306.html |title=2015 Official Selection |accessdate=16 April 2015 |work=Cannes |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418084150/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/61306.html |archivedate=18 April 2015 }}
Winocour also co-wrote the film Mustang with Deniz Gamze Ergüven. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/the-directors-fortnight-2015-selection-p487.html |title=The Directors' Fortnight 2015 selection! |accessdate=21 April 2015 |work=Quinzaine des Réalisateurs |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423224901/http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/the-directors-fortnight-2015-selection-p487.html |archivedate=23 April 2015 }} The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mustang-is-frances-oscars-2015-822899 |title=Oscars: France Selects 'Mustang' As Foreign-Language Submission |last=Richford |first=Rhonda |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=22 September 2015 |accessdate=22 September 2015}}
She was named as a member of the jury of the Critics' Week section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.semainedelacritique.com/EN/jury.php |title=Jury 2016 |accessdate=22 March 2015 |work=Semaine de la Critique de Cannes |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512080120/http://www.semainedelacritique.com/EN/jury.php |archivedate=12 May 2016 }}
Her 2019 film Proxima premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival,Jordan Mintzer, [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/proxima-review-1237508 "'Proxima': Film Review | TIFF 2019"]. The Hollywood Reporter, September 6, 2019. where it received an honourable mention from the Platform Prize jury.[https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/tiff/2019/09/13/the-film-martin-eden-wins-tiffs-platform-prize.html "The film Martin Eden wins TIFF’s Platform Prize"]. Toronto Star, September 13, 2019.
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable"
! rowspan=2 width="33"| Year ! rowspan=2| Title ! colspan=2| Credited as ! rowspan=2| Notes |
| width=65 |Director
! width=65 |Screenwriter |
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| align="center" | 2003
| align="left"| Orphée | | {{yes}} | Short film (also as actress) |
| align="center" | 2005
| align="left"| Kitchen | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Short film |
| align="center" | 2007
| align="left"| Magic Paris | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Short film |
| align="center" | 2008
| align="left"| Home | | {{yes}} | Collaboration |
| align="center" | 2009
| align="left"| Pina Colada | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Short film |
| align="center" | 2009
| align="left"| Ordinary People | | {{yes}} | Collaboration |
| align="center" | 2012
| align="left"| Augustine | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Nominated—2012 Cannes Film Festival - Caméra d'Or |
| align="center" | 2015
| align="left"| Disorder | {{yes}} | {{yes}} |Nominated—2015 Cannes Film Festival - Prix Un certain regard |
| align="center" | 2015
| align="left"| Mustang | | {{yes}} | César Award for Best Original Screenplay |
| align="center" | 2019
| align="left"| Proxima | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | |
| align="center" | 2022
| align="left"| Paris Memories (Revoir Paris) | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | |
| align="center"|TBA
| align="left"| Couture | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Post-production |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1356951}}
- [http://www.grand-ecart.fr/portraits/film-augustine-interview-alice-winocour/ Rencontre avec Alice Winocour] sur [http://www.grand-ecart.fr/ Grand-Écart.fr]
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Category:French women film directors
Category:Film directors from Paris