Nancy Laura Savoca was born on July 23,1959 and is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
12 Facts About Nancy Savoca
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Nancy Laura Savoca was born in 1959 in the Bronx, New York, to immigrants Maria Elvira from Argentina and Carlos Savoca from Sicily.
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Nancy Savoca was nominated for a Spirit Award as Best Director.
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Nancy Savoca was among five writers and co-wrote all three segments of the Demi Moore-produced If These Walls Could Talk, a miniseries about abortion rights, and she directed the first two segments.
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In 1998, Nancy Savoca was feted as a "New York trailblazer" at the New York Women's Film Festival.
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Nancy Savoca was honored by the Los Angeles chapter of the advocacy organization, Women in Film and Television.
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Nancy Savoca's work has been the subject of a retrospective by the American Museum of the Moving Image.
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Nancy Savoca directed the 2002 concert film Reno: Rebel without a Pause starring comedian Reno.
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Nancy Savoca completed an independent feature, Union Square, starring Mira Sorvino, Tammy Blanchard, Patti LuPone, Mike Doyle, Michael Rispoli and Daphne Rubin-Vega.
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On June 4,2012, Nancy Savoca received a Best in the Biz tribute in Canada's 10th Anniversary Female Eye Film Festival.
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Nancy Savoca worked with student screenwriters to help develop their original ideas into films that air on Showtime and become part of an innovative teaching curriculum used in high schools around the country.
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Nancy Savoca is married to her long time professional partner, Richard Guay.