Latest Work
Savoca and Guay are shooting a documentary on Gato Barbieri, an Argentinian jazz saxophonist. They are also currently working towards the filming of Ki Longfellow’s novel The Secret Magdalene (Eio Books, 2005; Random House, 2007) in which Savoca is again the screenwriter and director, while Guay is producing.
Revolution Books screened "Dirt" on August 11, 2010. Savoca appeared for a Q&A. DIRT is an award-winning tragic-comedy about an undocumented cleaning woman. Shot in NYC and El Salvador.
In February 2011, Colombia held a retrospective of Savoca's work which she attended.
Savoca has completed her independent feature Union Square starring Mira Sorvino, Tammy Blanchard, Patti LuPone, Mike Doyle, Michael Rispoli and Daphne Rubin-Vega. Madeleine Peyroux recorded an end song for the film which was invited to open in 2011's Toronto International Film Festival. It is now being released in selected theaters throughout the United States.
On June 4, 2012, Nancy Savoca received a Best in the Biz tribute in Canada's 10th Anniversary Female Eye Film Festival.
On July 13, 2012 (a Friday), Union Square opened to packed houses in New York City, Los Angeles and Toronto. An indie shot in 12 days for less than $100,000, it has received widespread notice from major print sources such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, to online sources like Newsday, Yahoo Voices and the Pasadena Sun.
In the fall of 2012, Nancy directed a short film for Scenarios USA. This is an organization that uses the stories of high school students, transforming them into professionally made short films. Nancy worked with student screenwriters to help develop their original ideas into films that air on Showtime and become part of an innovative teaching curriculum used in high schools around the country.
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