Director
Claudia Weill
79 years · New York City, New York, USA · 16 films
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claudia Weill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Best known for
Filmography 16
Giving Up the Ghost
1998 · Director
Critical Choices
1996 · Director
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
1992 · Director
Face of a Stranger
1991 · Director
Calling the Shots
1988 · Self
Once a Hero
1987 · Director
Johnny Bull
1986 · Director
It's My Turn
1980 · Director
Girlfriends
1978 · Director, Producer
The Scenic Route
1978 · Actor
On Kanopy
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
1975 · Director, Editor
Joyce at 34
1972 · Cinematography, Writer
Roaches' Lullaby
1972 · Director
Commuters
1970 · Director
Aspen, 1970
1970 · Director
Fran
1968 · Director