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Audrey Ann Wells (née Lederer; January 25, 1960 – October 4, 2018) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Her 1999 film Guinevere won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.




Early life and education


Wells was born in San Francisco, California, to Austrian-American psychiatrist Wolfgang Lederer and Romanian-American psychologist Alexandra Botwin Lederer; her parents fled World War II-era Europe. She had Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish ancestry.
She graduated from U.C. Berkeley and UCLA.




Career


Wells worked as a disc jockey at San Francisco jazz radio station KJAZ FM.
She wrote a number of successful screenplays and directed three for which she had created the script. Her works were primarily comedies and romance films. Among her films are The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), both of which she also produced. Her 1999 film Guinevere won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Wells also co-wrote the script for the comedy The Game Plan.




Death


Wells was diagnosed with cancer in 2013. She continued to work on film projects up until her death. Wells died on October 4, 2018, at age 58 due to cancer.
The film The Hate U Give, for which she wrote the screenplay, was released the day after she died.
She also wrote the screenplay for the 2020 Netflix/Pearl Studio animated feature Over the Moon, which was dedicated to her memory.




Filmography


The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996), writer/executive producer
George of the Jungle (1997), co-screenwriter
Guinevere (1999), writer/director (feature directorial debut)
Disney's The Kid (2000), writer
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), screen story writer/screenwriter/director/producer
Shall We Dance? (2004), screenwriter
The Game Plan (2007), co-story writer
The Fugees (2012), director
A Dog's Purpose (2017), co-screenwriter
The Hate U Give (2018), screenwriter (film released posthumously)
Abominable (2019), Additional screenplay material with Irena Brigull and William Davies (film released posthumously)
Over the Moon (2020), writer (film released posthumously) - The film was dedicated to her memory.




See also


List of female film and television directors




References






External links


Audrey Wells at IMDb
Biography of uk.movies.yahoo.com

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• Guinevere (film 1999)
• The Game Plan (film)
• The Hate U Give (film)
• Under the Tuscan Sun (film)
• Over The Moon (film 2020)
• Tracy Letts
• Disney's The Kid (Film)
• A Dog's Purpose (film)
• George of the Jungle (film)
• Daftar film Amerika tahun 2003
• Audrey Wells
• Audrey
• Over the Moon (2020 film)
• Audrey Hepburn
• Under the Tuscan Sun (film)
• Guinevere (1999 film)
• Modern Love (TV series)
• Under the Tuscan Sun (book)
• A Dog's Purpose (film)
• The Hate U Give (film)