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Nancy Savoca (Nancy Laura Savoca) was born on 23 July, 1959 in New York City, U.S., is an American film producer. Discover Nancy Savoca's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

Popular As Nancy Laura Savoca
Occupation Film director writer producer
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 23 July 1959
Birthday 23 July
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Richard Guay (m. 1980)

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1959

Nancy Laura Savoca (born July 23, 1959) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Nancy Laura Savoca was born in 1959 in the Bronx, New York, to Argentine and Sicilian immigrants Maria Elvira and Carlos Savoca, respectively.

She attended local schools.

1982

After completing her courses at Queens College, Flushing, New York, Savoca went on to graduate in 1982 from New York University's film school, the Tisch School of the Arts.

While there, she received the Haig P. Manoogian Award for overall excellence for her short films Renata and Bad Timing.

After film school, Savoca worked as a storyboard artist and assistant editor on various independent films and music videos.

1986

Her first professional experience was as a production assistant to John Sayles on his film The Brother From Another Planet, and as an assistant auditor for Jonathan Demme on two of his films: Something Wild (1986), and Married to the Mob (1988).

1989

In 1989, she directed her first full-length movie, the privately funded True Love, about Italian-American marriage rituals in the Bronx.

It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

The movie, starring Annabella Sciorra and Ron Eldard, both making their film debuts, was praised as one of the best films of the year by both Janet Maslin and Vincent Canby of the New York Times.

Savoca was nominated for a Spirit Award as Best Director.

MGM/UA picked up the distribution rights and RCA released the soundtrack, with two songs reaching the Top 40 hits on the Billboard charts.

Since then she has written, directed and produced movies for the big screen and television, written or polished scripts for other directors, and directed a number of episodes in ongoing television series.

She 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.

The second segment starred Sissy Spacek, who played a married woman who does not think she can afford another child.

Cher starred in and directed the third segment, in which she played a doctor targeted by anti-abortion activists.

It was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Miniseries or Television Film.

1998

In 1998, Savoca was feted as a "New York trailblazer" at the New York Women's Film Festival.

Savoca was also honored by the Los Angeles chapter of the advocacy organization, Women in Film and Television.

Two of Savoca's films, Household Saints and True Love, are listed in The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made St. Martin's Griffin.

Her film True Love was called one of the "50 Greatest Independent Films of All Time" by Entertainment Weekly.

Nancy Savoca's work has also been the subject of a retrospective by the American Museum of the Moving Image.

2002

Savoca directed the 2002 concert film Reno: Rebel without a Pause starring comedian Reno.

2005

They were also currently working towards the filming of Ki Longfellow's novel The Secret Magdalene (Eio Books, 2005; Random House, 2007) in which Savoca was again the screenwriter and director, while Guay was producing.

2010

When Revolution Books screened Dirt on August 11, 2010, Savoca appeared for a Q&A.

Shot in NYC and El Salvador, Dirt is a tragicomedy about an undocumented cleaning woman.

2011

In February 2011, Colombia held a retrospective of Savoca's work which she attended.

Savoca completed an independent feature, Union Square, starring Mira Sorvino, Tammy Blanchard, Patti LuPone, Mike Doyle, Michael Rispoli and Daphne Rubin-Vega.

Madeleine Peyroux recorded an end song for the film which was invited to open in 2011's Toronto International Film Festival.

It was released in selected theaters throughout the United States.

2012

In 2012, Savoca and Guay were shooting a documentary on Gato Barbieri, an Argentinian jazz saxophonist.

On June 4, 2012, Nancy Savoca received a Best in the Biz tribute in Canada's 10th Anniversary Female Eye Film Festival.

On July 13, 2012, Union Square opened in New York City, Los Angeles and Toronto.

An independent film shot in 12 days for less than $100,000, it received widespread notice from major print sources such as The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, to online sources like Newsday, Yahoo Voices and the Pasadena Sun.

In the fall of 2012, Nancy directed a short film for Scenarios USA, an organization that uses the stories of high school students, transforming them into professionally made short films.

Nancy 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.

Nancy Savoca is married to her long time professional partner, Richard Guay.