Nancy Savoca
| Nancy Savoca | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Nancy Laura Savoca July 23, 1959 Bronx, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Film director, writer, producer |
| Years active | 1982 to present |
| Notable work | True Love, Dogfight, Household Saints, If These Walls Could Talk, The 24 Hour Woman |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Guay (m. 1980 to present) |
| Children | Bobby Guay (b. 1986), Kenny Guay (b. 1989), Martina Guay (b. 1992) |
| Website | nancysavoca |
Nancy Laura Savoca (born July 23, 1959) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
Nancy Laura Savoca was born in 1959 in the Bronx, New York, to Argentine and Sicilian immigrants Maria Elvira and Calogero Savoca, respectively. She attended local schools. After completing her courses at Queens College, Flushing, New York, Savoca went on to graduate in 1982 from New York University's film school, the Tisch School of the Arts. While there she received the Haig P. Manoogian Award for overall excellence for her short films Renata and Bad Timing.
After film school, Savoca worked as a storyboard artist and assistant editor on an independent film. Her first professional experience was as a production assistant to John Sayles on his film The Brother From Another Planet, and as an assistant auditor for Jonathan Demme on two of his films: Something Wild (1986), and Married to the Mob (1988).
In 1989, she directed her first full-length movie, the privately funded True Love, about Italian-American marriage rituals in the Bronx. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie, starring Annabella Sciorra and Ron Eldard, both making their film debuts (and co-starring a number of now-familiar faces from The Sopranos including Aida Turturro and Vincent Pastore), was hailed as one of the best films of the year by both Janet Maslin and Vincent Canby of the New York Times. Savoca was nominated for a Spirit Award as Best Director. MGM/UA picked up the distribution rights and RCA released the soundtrack, with two songs reaching the Top 40 hits on the Billboard charts.
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