Shawn Slovo
South African born Shawn Slovo started her film career working with some of the biggest names in the Industry - working as script assistant on the Richard Burton film Absolution, and then as assistant to the Oscar-winning Robert De Niro on Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull and The King of Comedy.
Within five years, she was writing her autobiographical screenplay for Working Title’s A World Apart (1988), based on her childhood under apartheid. The film was critically acclaimed and won her a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. Her successful partnership with Working Title secured her next film project, adapting Louis de Bernières’ best-selling novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin for the big screen.
Shawn's next film for Working Title was Catch A Fire, with Tim Robbins and Derek Luke. It tells the story of one man’s struggle against apartheid in 1980’s South Africa. Her latest screenplay is an adaptation of Jane Shapiro’s novel The Dangerous Husband, currently in production at Working Title and she is now working on Bobby Fischer Goes to War, to be directed by Kevin MacDonald.
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