Sally Potter

Sally Potter (b. 1949, London), one of the world's top directors, left school at age 16 in order to become a filmmaker. In the seventies she studied professional dance and choreography at the London School of Contemporary Dance and later founded her own troupe, The Limited Dance Company. She gained recognition as a theatre director and as a singer-songwriter as well (she has been a member of several bands). Running parallel to her music activities, her movie career started with experimental shorts (e.g. the cult film Thriller, 1979). She debuted in features with The Gold Diggers (1983). Other films: The London Story (1986, short), a highly awarded adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1992; 1993 European Film Award (Felix), two Oscar nominations), The Tango Lesson (1997; screened in the Horizons section at Karlovy Vary in 1998), and The Man Who Cried (2000).

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