Elaine Proctor (born 1960) is a South African film director, screenwriter, novelist, and actress. Her film Friends was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or Special Distinction.
Proctor attended the National Film and Television School, where she studied under director Mike Leigh.Candice Pires, "Filmmakers Mike Leigh and Elaine Proctor on their close friendship: Elaine Proctor and Mike Leigh met when she was a student at the National Film School and he was her teacher, and then, as fellow filmmakers, their friendship blossomed." The Guardian, 17 May 2015. Her graduation film, On the Wire, won the school's Sutherland Trophy. Proctor has also written two novels. Her second novel, Savage Hour, was shortlisted for the 2015 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize."The Outsiders in My Head: 2015 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Shortlistee Elaine Proctor on Writing The Savage Hour", The Sunday Times (South Africa), 2 June 2015.
Filmography Game for Vultures (1979) Sharpeville Spirit (1986) We Will See/Re tla bona (1987) On the Wire (1990) Friends (1993) Kin (2000)"Review: Kin", Variety, 7 August 2000.
Fiction Rhumba (2011) Savage Hour (2015)
References
External links Official website
"Elaine Proctor on The Savage Hour: trying to give goodness a shape", The Irish Times, 22 May 2015.