{{short description|Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1949)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Wilma Labate | image = Wilma Labate.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|12|4|df=y}} | birth_place = Rome | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = film director and screenwriter }} '''Wilma Labate''' (born 4 December 1949) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Born in Rome, Labate started her career as a television director, then in the 1980s she worked in the field of documentary filmmaking.<ref name=Viventi>Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. {{ISBN|978-88-317-9599-9}}.</ref>

She made her feature film debut in 1992 with ''Ambrogio'', for which she was nominated best new director at the 1994 Nastri d'Argento.<ref>{{cite news|title=Oggi i Nastri d'argento|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/03/19/oggi-nastri-argento-ken-loach-tra.html?ref=search|accessdate=9 December 2013|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=19 March 1994}}</ref> In 1996, her film ''La mia generazione'' won the Grolla d'oro for best film and was the Italian candidate in the race for the 1997 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film.<ref name="Viventi"/> In 2007, her fil ''Miss F'', premiered at the Turin Film Festival.<ref name="Viventi"/> After a series of documentaries, in 2021 Labate returned to narrative films with ''The Girl Flew'', which premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zappoli |first1=Giancarlo |title=La ragazza ha volato |url=https://www.mymovies.it/film/2021/la-ragazza-ha-volato/ |access-date=29 July 2024 |work=Mymovies.it |date=3 September 2021 |language=it}}</ref>

Labate is also an author and in 2005 co-wrote with Fausto Bertinotti the autobiographical book ''Il ragazzo con la maglietta a strisce''.<ref name="Viventi"/>

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