Emma-Kate Croghan

While she was on the dole, Emma-Kate Croghan made her debut feature "Love and Other Catastrophes" in her native Australia for $37,000--produced by her boyfriend Stavros Andonis Efthymiou--only to have it become the darling of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival and make her one of the world's rising young filmmakers. Filmed when she was 23, "Love", which Croghan also co-wrote, is in the style of the screwball comedies of the 1930s, recounting the …