Cate Shortland

Cate Shortland

Cate Shortland (born 10 August 1968) is an Australian director and screenwriter. She received international acclaim for her 2004 romantic drama film Somersault, her 2012 historical drama film Lore, and her 2017 psychological thriller film Berlin Syndrome. She is best known for directing the 2021 superhero film Black Widow. Shortland was born 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. Shortland has created several award-winning short films: Strap on Olympia (1995); Pentuphouse (1998); Flower Girl (2000); and Joy (2000). She spent three years directing episodes of the Network Ten television series, The Secret Life of Us. In 2004, Shortland released her debut feature-length film, Somersault (2004), which was entered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. She directed the Australian television film The Silence. Her second feature, Lore, had its Australian premiere at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival. It won at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2012 the Prix du Public UBS. In November, the film won the Bronze Horse for best film at the Stockholm International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Australian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. In 2015, Shortland announced she was working on a third feature film, Berlin Syndrome. Based on the book of the same name by Melanie Joosten, the film starred Teresa Palmer as an Australian photojournalist who becomes imprisoned in the apartment of a man with whom she has a one-night stand. The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. In July 2018, Shortland was announced as the director of the 2021 Black Widow film for Marvel Studios. Shortland is a convert to Judaism. She married filmmaker Tony Krawitz in 2009, and they have two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cate Shortland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Cate Shortland
  • Popularity: 0.3136
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1968-08-10
  • Place of Birth: Temora, New South Wales, Australia
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Cate Shortland Movies

  • 2004
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    Somersault

    Somersault

    6.197 2004 HD

    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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  • 2004
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    Somersault

    Somersault

    6.197 2004 HD

    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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  • 2012
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    Lore

    Lore

    6.774 2012 HD

    After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.

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  • 2012
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    Lore

    Lore

    6.774 2012 HD

    After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.

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  • 1998
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    Pentuphouse

    Pentuphouse

    8 1998 HD

    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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  • 2006
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    The Silence

    The Silence

    6 2006 HD

    A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murders.

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  • 1998
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    Pentuphouse

    Pentuphouse

    8 1998 HD

    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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  • 1999
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    Flowergirl

    Flowergirl

    4 1999 HD

    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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  • 2017
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    Berlin Syndrome

    Berlin Syndrome

    6.026 2017 HD

    A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.

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  • 1999
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    Flowergirl

    Flowergirl

    4 1999 HD

    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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  • 1995
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    Strap on Olympia

    Strap on Olympia

    1 1995 HD

    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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  • 1995
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    Strap on Olympia

    Strap on Olympia

    1 1995 HD

    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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  • 2017
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    Berlin Syndrome

    Berlin Syndrome

    6.026 2017 HD

    A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.

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  • 2000
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    Joy

    Joy

    8.5 2000 HD

    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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  • 2000
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    Joy

    Joy

    8.5 2000 HD

    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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  • 2021
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    Black Widow

    Black Widow

    7.187 2021 HD

    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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  • 2008
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    Netherland Dwarf

    Netherland Dwarf

    5 2008 HD

    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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  • 1998
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    In the Winter Dark

    In the Winter Dark

    5.25 1998 HD

    Fear of an unidentified livestock predator unites an Australian couple, an outcast, and an abandoned woman.

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  • 2021
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    Marvel Studios Assembled

    Marvel Studios Assembled

    7.2 2021 HD

    Go behind the scenes of the shows and movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following the filmmakers, cast and crew, and Marvel heroes every step of the way.

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  • 1951
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    German Film Award

    German Film Award

    6 1951 HD

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  • 1970
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    German Film Award

    German Film Award

    5 1970 HD

    The Secret Life of Us is an Australian television drama series about the lives of 20-30 somethings living in the early 2000s.

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  • 1970
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    German Film Award

    German Film Award

    6.438 1970 HD

    Anna Macy left Kettering when she was just 14, shortly after her best friend, Gillian Baxter mysteriously disappeared. The two girls had been playing in the forbidden forests outside Kettering when they saw strange lights in the sky. Eight hours later, Anna was found alone, terrified and covered in blood. 15 years on, Anna returns to find the town struggling to survive. The forests have been marked for logging and the community is being torn apart by passionate but violent clashes between environmentalists and the local loggers.

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  • 1970
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    German Film Award

    German Film Award

    5.846 1970 HD

    Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.

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  • 1970
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    German Film Award

    German Film Award

    6.592 1970 HD

    At an Australian backyard BBQ, amongst alcohol, friendship and a children's cricket game, a man slaps a child who is not his son. The party comes to a sudden halt. The child's parents are so affronted they vow to take the man to court. The police become involved and friends and family are forced to take sides.

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  • 1970
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    German Film Award

    German Film Award

    7.226 1970 HD

    Amanda Knox arrives in Italy for her study abroad only to be wrongfully imprisoned for murder weeks later. Follow Knox's relentless fight to prove her innocence and reclaim her freedom and examines why authorities and the world stood so firmly in judgment.

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