Jane Campion
Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion Early Life
Campion was born on April 30, 1954, In Wellington, New Zealand, The daughter of Richard Campion and Edith Armstrong. Her father was a theater director and her mother was an actress. Her older sister, Anna, born a year and half before her, And brother, Michael, Born seven years after.
Jane Campion Work
She went to Victoria University of Wellington in 1975. Campion finished her diploma in Art at the Sydney college of arts in sydney, Australia. She majored in painting and sculpting, but she discovered her true calling during her last year at the college, when she began making super-8 films. Her first short film, Tissues (1980), got her into film school.
In 1981, Campion entered the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
She was the director, Writer, And editor of Peel (1982),Which she focused on a power struggle over discipline between a father and a son. In 1986, Campion won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for best short film for Peel, Garnering her much attention. Among the best known of her works was the Academy-Award-Winning Film The Piano (1993).
Jane Campion Impact
After she becoming the first female Palme d'Or winner, Jane Campion looked ready to usher in a new afternoon of feminist cinema – but buskin intervened. As she returns to chair Cannes, she tells Andrew Pulver about surviving as a woman director
- Which University did she go?
2. What was her first film? And when?
3. What was her job?
4. Whats her father’s job?
5. How old is her brother when she was 27 years old? What's his name?
6. When did she moved to Australian Film Television and Radio School?
