Editing Cate Shortland (section)

==Career==
Shortland has created several award-winning short films: ''Strap on Olympia'' (1995); ''Pentuphouse'' (1998); ''Flower Girl'' (2000); and ''Joy'' (2000).

She spent three years directing episodes of the [[Network Ten]] television series, ''[[The Secret Life of Us]]''.

In 2004, Shortland released her debut feature-length film, ''[[Somersault (film)|Somersault]]'' (2004), which was entered in the [[Un Certain Regard]] section at the [[2004 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4199808/year/2004.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Somersault |access-date=3 December 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> She directed the Australian television film ''[[The Silence (2006 film)|The Silence]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/the-silence-2005/20975?stxt=the%20silence&yend=2018|title=The Silence|publisher=Screen Australia}}</ref>

Her second feature, ''[[Lore (film)|Lore]]'', had its Australian premiere at the 2012 [[Sydney Film Festival]].<ref>[http://sff.org.au/public/films/program/films-a-z/lore/ "Lore", ''Sydney Film Festival 2012''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815184926/http://sff.org.au/public/films/program/films-a-z/lore/ |date=15 August 2012 }} accessed 9 June 2012</ref> It won at the [[Locarno International Film Festival]] in August 2012 the ''Prix du Public [[UBS]]''. In November, the film won the Bronze Horse for best film at the [[2012 Stockholm International Film Festival|Stockholm International Film Festival]]. The film was selected as the Australian entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Oscar]] at the [[85th Academy Awards]], but it did not make the final shortlist.<ref name="Oscars">{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.com.au/culture/art/australian+film+lore+up+for+an+oscar,19719|title=Australian film Lore up for an Oscar|access-date=7 September 2012|work=Vogue|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120909013815/http://www.vogue.com.au/culture/art/australian+film+lore+up+for+an+oscar,19719|archive-date=9 September 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Rohter|first=Larry|title=Viewing the Nazis Through Their Children's Eyes|url=http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/viewing-the-nazis-through-their-childrens-eyes/|newspaper=The New York Times|date=4 February 2013}}</ref>

In 2015, Shortland announced she was working on a third feature film, ''[[Berlin Syndrome (film)|Berlin Syndrome]]''. Based on the book of the same name by Melanie Joosten, the film starred [[Teresa Palmer]] as an [[Australians|Australian]] photojournalist who becomes imprisoned in the apartment of a man with whom she has a one-night stand.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jagernauth|first1=Kevin|title=Teresa Palmer To Lead Cate Shortland's 'Berlin Syndrome'|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/teresa-palmer-to-lead-cate-shortlands-berlin-syndrome-20150515|access-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019234038/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/teresa-palmer-to-lead-cate-shortlands-berlin-syndrome-20150515|archive-date=19 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The film premiered at the 2017 [[Sundance Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Debruge|first1=Peter|title=Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2017 Competition, Next Lineups|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/sundance-film-festival-2017-movies-lineup-dramatic-competition-next-documentary-1201929581/|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=30 November 2016|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref>

In July 2018, Shortland was announced as the director of the 2021 ''[[Black Widow (2021 film)|Black Widow]]''  film for [[Marvel Studios]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/black-widow-movie-be-directed-by-cate-shortland-1126708|title='Black Widow' Movie Finds Director in Cate Shortland (Exclusive)|last=Kit|first=Borys|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=12 July 2018|access-date=12 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713013222/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/black-widow-movie-be-directed-by-cate-shortland-1126708|archive-date=13 July 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>