Claudia Weill

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 Its My Turn 1980 for Columbia Pictureswith Jill Clayburgh Michael Douglas and Charles Grodinwon 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 womens delegation to China in 1973 headed by Shirley MacLaine nominated for an Academy Award and released theatrically and on PBS Description above from the Wikipedia article Claudia Weill licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia