Female director wins award at Palm Springs film festival

PALM SPRINGS, the United States - Patty Jenkins received Variety's annual Creative Impact in Directing Award at the 29th Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) recently. She is the first female director ever bestowed such an honor by the festival.

Jenkins' latest film Wonder Woman is "one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful films of the year," said Claudia Eller, co-editor in chief of US entertainment weekly Variety.

Gal Gadot, the film's star who received the Rising Star Award at the PSIFF Film Awards Gala the night before, presented the award to her.