Name
Claudia Weill
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1947-01-01 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Brothers after multiple awards at Cannes, Filmex and Sundance. Girlfriends would be one of 82 films made by a female director to compete at Cannes. In 2019, Girlfriends was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
It's My Turn (1980 for Columbia Pictures)—with Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, and Charles Grodin—won her the Donatello, or International Oscar for best new director.
Earlier work includes 30 films for Sesame Street, freelancing as a camerawoman, and numerous documentaries, notably The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, a documentary about the first women's delegation to China in 1973, headed by Shirley MacLaine, nominated for an Academy Award and released theatrically and on PBS.
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Known For
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A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting ...
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A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in ...
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An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who complete...
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The San Francisco scene in 1967-68. Documentary about hippies shot during the height of t...
- 1978 The Scenic Route
- 1988 Calling the Shots as Self
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
