Shawn Slovo
Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a South African screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart , based on her childhood under apartheid.[1] She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First. She wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Catch a Fire (also a historical film about apartheid), and for the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin .[2]
In the late 1970s, she served as Robert De Niro's personal assistant while he made the films Raging Bull and The King of Comedy . She also wrote the screenplay for Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight .
Slovo lives in London and often works for Working Title Films. Her sister Gillian Slovo is also a writer and her sister Robyn Slovo is a producer.
References
[edit ]- ^ "Interview | A World Apart, A Dialogue in Three Parts: Shawn Slovo". Bomb . 1 October 1988. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ "Shawn Slovo biography". filmreference.com.
- ^ "Jews in the News:Sarah Michelle Gellar, Julianne Margulies and Jake Gyllenh | Tampa JCCS and Federation".
External links
[edit ]- Shawn Slovo at IMDb
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