Sally Potter

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Director, Screenwriter, Composer (Music Score), Choreography, Actor, Editor
Born:
1949 in England
Biography:One of cinema's more multifaceted personalities, director, writer, dancer, and performance artist "Sally Potter" is known for making innovative, personal films that center around the lives of unusual women. Born in 1949, Potter began making films as a teenager, and she also began dancing around the same time. She maintained parallel routes as a performer and director, training as a professional dancer and choreographer at the London School of Contemporary Dance in the 1970s and eventually founding her own dance company, the Limited Dance Company, with fellow performer Jack Lansly. During the same decade, Potter made a series of short dance films in both black and white and color, and she also became recognized as an award-winning theatre director and performance artist.

Potter's first film of significant international import was the 1979 short "Thriller", a critical re-working of Puccini's La... Full Biography

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Sally Potter and Joan Allen
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