Elaine Proctor

{{Short description|South African film director (born 1960)}}

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| name = Elaine Proctor

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1960}}

| birth_place = Johannesburg, South Africa

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| nationality = South African

| citizenship = South African

| occupation = Novelist, film director, screenwriter, actor

| yearsactive = 1979–present

| notable_works = Friends
Game for Vultures

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Elaine Proctor (born 1960) is a South African film director, screenwriter, novelist, and actress. Her film Friends was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or Special Distinction.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2579/year/1993.html|title=Festival de Cannes: Friends|access-date=18 August 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}

Proctor attended the National Film and Television School, where she studied under director Mike Leigh.Candice Pires, [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/17/filmmakers-mike-leigh-and-elaine-proctor-on-friendship "Filmmakers Mike Leigh and Elaine Proctor on their close friendship: Elaine Proctor and Mike Leigh met when she was a student at the National Film School and he was her teacher, and then, as fellow filmmakers, their friendship blossomed."] The Guardian, 17 May 2015. Her graduation film, On the Wire, won the school's Sutherland Trophy. Proctor has also written two novels. Her second novel, Savage Hour, was shortlisted for the 2015 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize.[http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2015/06/02/the-outsiders-in-my-head-2015-barry-ronge-fiction-prize-shortlistee-elaine-proctor-on-writing-the-savage-hour/ "The Outsiders in My Head: 2015 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Shortlistee Elaine Proctor on Writing The Savage Hour"], The Sunday Times (South Africa), 2 June 2015.