Charlotte Sally Potter was born on 19 September 1949 and is an English film director and screenwriter.
18 Facts About Sally Potter
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Sally Potter is known for directing Orlando, which won the audience prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival.
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Sally Potter's mother was a music teacher and her father was an interior designer and a poet.
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Sally Potter began making amateur films at age 14, using an 8mm camera given to her by an uncle.
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Sally Potter eventually dropped out of school at age 16 to pursue filmmaking.
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Sally Potter had joined the London Film-Makers' Co-op and began making experimental short films, including Jerk and Play.
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Sally Potter later trained as a dancer and choreographer at the London School of Contemporary Dance.
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Sally Potter made both film and dance pieces, including Combines, before founding Limited Dance Company with Jacky Lansley.
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Sally Potter became an award-winning performance artist and theatre director, with shows including Mounting, Death and the Maiden and Berlin.
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Sally Potter collaborated with composer Lindsay Cooper on the song cycle Oh Moscow, which was performed throughout Europe, Russia and North America in the late 1980s and commercially released.
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Sally Potter continued as a composer when she collaborated with David Motion on the soundtrack to Orlando.
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Sally Potter wrote the score for the film, The Tango Lesson, for which she sang "I am You" in the final scene.
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Sally Potter returned to filmmaking with her short film Thriller, which was a hit on the international festival circuit.
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Sally Potter directed another short film, The London Story ; a documentary series for Channel 4, Tears, Laughter, Fear and Rage ; and I am an Ox, I am a Horse, I am a Man, I am a Woman, a film about women in Soviet cinema.
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Sally Potter next directed the film, The Tango Lesson, in which she performed with renowned dancer Pablo Veron.
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The Tango Lesson is semi-autobiographical, based on Sally Potter's experiences learning Argentinian Tango with Veron while writing the screenplay for Rage.
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Since The Tango Lesson's release, Sally Potter continued to receive letters from viewers who felt touched by it.
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In 2007 Sally Potter directed Georges Bizet's Carmen for English National Opera at the London Coliseum, starring Alice Coote and designed by Es Devlin.