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Kim Longinotto

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Kim Longinotto
Born
Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer

(1948-02-08) 8 February 1948 (age 76)[1]
London, England
Other namesKimona Landseer
Occupations
  • Director
  • producer
  • cinematographer
Years active1976–present

Kim Longinotto[2] (née Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer; born 8 February 1948, London) is a British documentary film maker,[3] well known for making films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination.[4] Longinotto has made more than 20 films, usually featuring inspiring women and girls at their core. Her subjects have included female genital mutilation in Kenya (The Day I Will Never Forget),[5] women standing up to rapists in India (Pink Saris),[6] and the story of Salma,[7] an Indian Muslim woman who smuggled poetry out to the world while locked up by her family for decades.[8]

Early life

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Born Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer to an Italian father and a Welsh mother on 8 February 1948;[9] her father was a photographer who later went bankrupt. At the age of 10, she was sent to an 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.[10]

She discovered that her double-barreled "Landseer" surname was made-up so she dropped it and just kept Longinotto, adopting a new forename (Kim or Kimona). After a period of homelessness, she went to Essex University, where she studied English literature and writing. She later followed friend and future filmmaker Nick Broomfield to the National Film and Television School.[11]

While studying, she made Pride of Place, a documentary about her boarding school that was shown at the London Film Festival.[12]

Career

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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.[13][14]

She runs a production company, Vixen Films, which she founded in 1988 with Claire Hunt under the name Twentieth Century Vixen Productions.[9]

Filmography

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  • Pride of Place (1976) – Director/Camera (as Kimona Landseer)
  • Theatre Girls (1978) – Director/Cinematographer
  • Cross and Passion (1981) – Director (with Claire Pollak)[15]
  • Underage (1982) – Director/Cinematographer
  • Eat the Kimono (1989) – Director/Cinematographer
  • Hidden Faces (1990) – Director/Cinematographer
  • The Good Wife of Tokyo (1992) – Director
  • Dream Girls (1994) – Director/Cinematographer/Producer
  • Shinjuku Boys (1995) – Director/Cinematographer/Producer
  • Rock Wives (1996) (TV) – Director / Camera
  • Divorce Iranian Style (1998) – Director / Camera
  • Gaea Girls (2000) – Director/Cinematographer/Producer
  • Runaway (2001) – Director/Cinematographer
  • The Day I Will Never Forget (2002) – Director/Cinematographer
  • Sisters in Law (2005) – Co-director (with Florence Ayisi)/Cinematographer/Producer
  • Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (2007) – Director/Cinematographer/Producer
  • Rough Aunties (2008) – Director/ Cinematographer[12]
  • Pink Saris (2010) – Director/Camera
  • Salma (2013) – Director / Camera
  • Love Is All (2014) – Director
  • Dreamcatcher (2015) – Director/Camera[16]
  • Shooting the Mafia (2019) – Director/Camera/Cowriter
  • Dalton's Dream (2023)

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ Birth registered as Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer in 3rd Quarter of 1948 as per the General Register Office of England & Wales, freebmd.org.uk. Accessed 31 December 2022.
  2. ^ Lacey, Liam (6 May 2010). "Kim Longinotto: capturing women in movies". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  3. ^ Wood, Jason (2006). "Kim Longinotto". Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview. Wallflower Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-904764-90-8. Retrieved 30 November 2010. Kim Longinotto.
  4. ^ Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (1995). "Hunt, Claire, and Kim Longinotto". Women Film Directors: An International Bio-critical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 196. ISBN 978-0-313-28972-9. Retrieved 30 November 2010. Kim Longinotto.
  5. ^ "WOMEN MAKE MOVIES - The Day I Will Never Forget". Wmm.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  6. ^ "WOMEN MAKE MOVIES - Pink Saris". Wmm.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  7. ^ "WOMEN MAKE MOVIES - Salma". Wmm.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  8. ^ Brown, Maggie (1 November 2015). "'A lot of documentary makers look down on TV'". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  9. ^ a b Aitken, Ian (2012). Documentary film. Routledge. ISBN 9780415579018. OCLC 775271646.
  10. ^ Brockes, Emma (11 February 2000). "Silent witness". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  11. ^ Corinn Columpar; Sophie Mayer (2009). There She Goes: feminist filmmaking and beyond. Wayne State University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-8143-3390-7.
  12. ^ a b Kira Cochrane (12 February 2010). "Kim Longinotto: 'Film-making saved my life'". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  13. ^ Aufderheide, Patricia (2007). Documentary Film A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press Inc. pp. 44. ISBN 978-0-19-518270-5.
  14. ^ White, Patricia (3 March 2011). "Cinema Solidarity: The Documentary Practice of Kim Longinotto". Cinema Journal. 46 (1): 122. doi:10.1353/cj.2007.0008. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  15. ^ Cross And Passion; Belfast Film Festival
  16. ^ Kim Longinotto, Dreamcatcher, interviewmagazine.com. Accessed 31 December 2022.
  17. ^ Bryan, Maureen A. (10 October 2015), "Kim Longinotto", thevoiceofawoman.com. Accessed 31 December 2022.
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