Name Kim Longinotto | Role Film-maker | |
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Occupation Director, producer, cinematographer Books Salma: Filming A Poet In Her Village Awards British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary Nominations European Film Academy Documentary Award - Prix Arte Movies Dreamcatcher, Pink Saris, Sisters in Law, Divorce Iranian Style, Rough Aunties Similar People Ziba Mir‑Hosseini, Sampat Pal Devi, Teddy Leifer, Sheila Nevins, Roger Graef | ||
Ask a documentary filmmaker kim longinotto
Kim Longinotto (born 1952) is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination. Longinotto has made more than 20 films, usually featuring inspiring women and girls at their core. She’s delved into female genital mutilation in Kenya (The Day I Will Never Forget)), women standing up to rapists in India (Pink Saris), and the story of Salma, an Indian Muslim woman who smuggled poetry out to the world while locked up by her family for decades.
Contents
- Ask a documentary filmmaker kim longinotto
- Kim longinotto being a documentary filmmaker part one
- Early life
- Career
- Filmography
- Awards
- References
Kim longinotto being a documentary filmmaker part one
Early life
Longinotto was born to an Italian father and a Welsh mother in 1952; her father was a photographer who later went bankrupt. At the age of 10 she was sent to a draconian all-girls boarding school, where she found it hard to make friends due to the mistress forbidding anyone to talk to her for a term after she became lost during a school trip. After a period of homelessness Longinotto went on to Essex University to study English and European literature and later followed friend and future filmmaker Nick Broomfield to the National Film and Television School. While studying, she made a documentary about her boarding school that was shown at the London Film Festival, since then she has continued to be a prolific documentary film maker.
Career
Longinotto is an observational filmmaker. Observational cinema, also known as direct cinema, free cinema or cinema verite, usually excludes certain documentary techniques such as advanced planning, scripting, staging, narration, lighting, re-enactment and interviewing. Longinotto's unobtrusiveness, which is an important part of observational documentary, gives the women on camera a certain voice and presence that might not have emerged with another documentary genre.
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