Kiwi filmmaker Jane Campion has won the Silver Lion award for best director at the Venice Film Festival for her New Zealand-shot movie, The Power of the Dog. Marc Piasecki/Getty Images Jane Campion poses with the Silver Lion for Best Director for The Power Of The Dog. READ MORE:* Jane Campion's magnificent return to film wows Venice festival* Power of the Dog: First look at Benedict Cumberbatch film shot in NZ* Campion's Power, Thomasin's Night, Miss Conception's Raiders to feature at TIFF“The girls are doing very well," Campion told reporters. It's like the Berlin Wall coming down or the end of apartheid for us women.”John Phillips/Getty Images Director Jane Campion, Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival. Campion told The Hollywood Reporter while she didn’t know what her next project would be, she planned to start a pop-up film school in New Zealand.

Source: Stuff September 11, 2021 23:15 UTC