Juanita Wilson is an Irish director and writer from Dublin. Her short film The Door received an Irish Film and Television Award (IFTA) in 2009 and an Academy Award nomination in 2010. Her debut feature film As If I Am Not There received the 2011 Irish Film and Television Award for best film, best script, and best director.
Wilson attended the National College of Art and Design where she studied fine art as well as Dublin Institute of Technology w...
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Juanita Wilson is an Irish director and writer from Dublin. Her short film The Door received an Irish Film and Television Award (IFTA) in 2009 and an Academy Award nomination in 2010. Her debut feature film As If I Am Not There received the 2011 Irish Film and Television Award for best film, best script, and best director.
Wilson attended the National College of Art and Design where she studied fine art as well as Dublin Institute of Technology where she studied design and journalism. She began directing after this. She produced Inside I'm Dancing and H3.
The Door was Wilson's first short film. It is based on the " Monologue About a Whole Life Written Down on Doors, the testimony of Nikolai Fomich Kalugin" by Svetlana Alexievich (from her book “The Chernobyl Prayer”). The Irish Film Board provided money for the making of the film. She went to the Ukrainian cities Kiev and Prypiat, described as "the most radioactive place on earth" due to its close proximity to Chernobyl, in order to...
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