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While New Zealander director Jane
Campion bristles at being pegged a "feminist director,"
her beautifully directed and shot films definitely focus on strong
female characters. Campion
studied at the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School,
where her nine-minute student project, Peel, earned her an award
at Cannes in 1982. Her first feature film, Sweetie, is a gloomy
yet remarkable film about family dysfunction, featuring Genevieve
Lemon as the oversized title character who terrorizes her sister.
Her next two films, An Angel at My Table and The Piano, opened
to rave reviews and garnered Campion
more statuettes, including an Oscar. The 1996 adaptation of Henry
James's novel The Portrait of a Lady brings out the sexual undertones
of the book. Campion,
one of the few female directors to break through, is a woman to
watch.
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