Kim Longinotto

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Kim Longinotto at the Sundance Film Festival (2015). Photo: PunkToad

Kim Longinotto (* 1952 in London ) is a British filmmaker .

life and work

Kim Longinotto studied cinematography and directing at the National Film and Television School in London and is a renowned documentary filmmaker . Her best-known works include Sisters in Law (2005) and Pink Saris (2010), a documentary about the Indian suffragette Sampat Pal Devi and the Gulabi Gang she founded , and Salma (2013) , a documentary about the Muslim poet of the same name from Tamil Nadu . Her documentary Shooting the Mafia (2019), to be seen in August 2019 on Das Erste , describes the daring struggle of the Sicilian Letizia Battaglia , whose photo documentation from 1974 onwards brought the Mafia bloodshed of the "Cosa Nostra" into the attention of the international public managed.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1976: Pride of Place - Director (as Kim Longinotto Landseer)
  • 1978: Theater Girls - director / camera
  • 1982: Underage - director / camera
  • 1989: Eat the Kimono - director / camera
  • 1990: Hidden Faces - director / camera
  • 1992: The Good Wife of Tokyo - Director
  • 1994: Dream Girls - director / camera / production
  • 1995: Shinjuku Boys - Director / Cinematography / Production
  • 1996: Rock Wives (TV film) - director / camera
  • 1998: Divorce Iranian Style - director / camera
  • 2000: Gaea Girls - Director / Cinematography / Production
  • 2001: Runaway - director / camera
  • 2002: The Day I Will Never Forget - director / camera
  • 2005: Sisters in Law - Director / Cinematography / Production
  • 2007: Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go - Director / Cinematography / Production
  • 2008: Rough Aunties - director / camera
  • 2010: Pink Saris - director / camera
  • 2013: Salma (2013) - director / camera
  • 2015: Dreamcatcher - director
  • 2019: Shooting the Mafia - director / camera

Awards (selection)

  • 2000 Divorce Iranian Style : BAFTA Awards , Flaherty Documentary Award
  • 2005 Sisters in Law  : Cannes Film Festival , CICAE Award
  • 2009 Rough Aunties : Sundance Film Festival , World Cinema Documentary
  • 2011 Pink Saris : Hong Kong International Film Festival, Humanitarian Award (Documentary) for Outstanding Documentary

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Pink Saris . International Film Days of Human Rights e. V .. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
  2. PINK SARIS . Viennale . Retrieved April 7, 2014.
  3. Documentary in the First: Shooting the Mafia , daserste.de, accessed August 8, 2019
  4. ^ "Shooting the Mafia" in First: The Face of Violence , FAZ August 7, 2019, accessed August 8, 2019