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Jane Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives in Sydney, Australia. Having graduated with a degree in Anthropology in 1975, she began film making in the early 1980s, attending the Australian School of Film and Television. Her feature film, “The Piano”, won the 1993 Paine D'or at Cannes. Campion found that she was drawn back to the colonial past of her country of birth, New Zealand. She wanted to explore the way emotions and situations might have been experienced in another century. Thus, she created three fictional characters, Ada, Stewart and Baines, and set them in the powerful landscape of New Zealand a hundred years ago.