Cate Shortland

Cate Shortland is a young Australian director who studied art at university in Sydney, and then obtained a diploma in direction from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 2000. She soon demonstrated her worthiness for the prize she was awarded as Most Talented Student, since every one of her four documentary films has won an award, most recently Flowergirl (1999) and Joy (2000). Somersault (2004) is her feature film debut.