2009 Cannes Film Festival with Abbie Cornish and Ben Wishaw
Excerpts from Bright Star
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I AM NOT JANE CAMPION NOR DO I KNOW HER OR WORK WITH HER! THIS IS A FAN PAGE CREATED BY SOMEONE WHO'S INTERESTED IN HER WORK!
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Jane Campion is an award winning Director and Screenwriter born in New Zealand who resides now in Sydney, Australia. She is the only female to have won the Palm D' Or (the highest prize) for her short film An Exercise in Discipline - Peel in 1986. In 1989 she completed her first feature film Sweetie which won international awards and the following year in 1990, she completed a film based on the autobiographies of New Zealand writer Janet Frame - An Angel at My Table which also won multiple film festival awards including the Grand Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. In 1993 she made The Piano which won numerous awards worldwide to include the Palm D' Or at Cannes as well as an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. She is only the second woman in the history of cinema to be nominated for an Academy Award for best director (with Lina Wertmuller and Sophia Coppola as the other two who have been nominated). In 1996 Jane made the film Portrait of a Lady based on the novel by Henry James also nominated for several Academy Awards. In 1999 she made the film Holy Smoke! co-writing the screenplay with her sister Anna Campion who also has directed films. In 2003 she made the film In the Cut which was based on Susanna Moore's novel of the same title. In 2006 she was the executive Producer of the documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story. Currently Jane has completed filming Bright Star which is due to be released in 2009 about the romance between poet John Keats and his neighbor Fanny Brawne. Jane wrote the screenplay as well. Inbetween the feature films In the Cut and Bright Star, Jane wrote and directed two short films: The Water Diary which is included in 8 (2008)along with seven other short films by seven other directors as well as The Lady Bug which was included as a segment along with other director's short films in To Each His Own Cinema (2007). She also has done some t.v. work early in her career as well as directing numerous film shorts during her attendance of film school in Australia.
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Education
1975 -Victoria University, Wellington, NZ BA in Structural Arts (Anthropology)
1976 -Attended Chelsea School of Arts In London
1979 -Sydney College of Arts, Australia, BA in Painting & Sculpture
1981-1984 - Attended Australian Film and Television School
"...I am frightened of my will, of what it might do. It is so strange and strong..." The Piano
"When I think of what's fantastic about women, it's their generosity, their intuitiveness, their capacity to trust emotions, to be emotional, to nurture, to promote peace, to care about the planet's environment so their children can inherit it. Those qualities aren't sexy for guys, but (they're) quite natural in women."
"When I've fallen in love, when somebody close dies, when I feel desperate or lonely, I read poetry"
"People say making movies isn't a cure for cancer. I disagree; filmmaking is a cure. It gives you a reason for living. When my son died, on the third day I was devastated, I didn't know what to do with myself, I went to see Orlando. It was so beautiful. This earth can be transformed. There are moments of extreme wonder ... and that's all worth living for. In the act of making a movie you are involved with those moments, those transformations. For me, it's been a way of life, totally fulfilling."(note: Jane's first child passed away 12 days after an emergency C-section was performed)
"There are marvelous, beautiful certainties that we can forget: the sun coming up, the moon, night and day. All these are very important to me. The inexorable movement of the earth, from day to night, night to day, gives certainty. No matter where you go, these things go on."
"My idea about life is that it's not about living life perfectly, but it's, you know, I guess living an examined life … allowing yourself to be vulnerable, allowing yourself to not be perfect...and embracing that I think highlights your humanity and I'm interested not in perfect people but just humans. And I think them being vulnerable and imperfect makes me love them more."
Genevieve Lemon & Karen Colston - Sweetie
Nicole Kidman in Portrait of a Lady
Holly Hunter and Sam Neill in The Piano
The Piano
Kerry Fox as writer Janet Frame in An Angel at My Table
Shots from Holy Smoke
John Malkovitch from The Making of Portrait of a Lady
In The Cut
Kate Winslet tells a very funny story about an improv with Harvey Keitel while working on Holy Smoke with Jane! Enjoy!