Kim Longinotto
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Born | Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer 8 February 1948[1] London, England |
Other names | Kimona Landseer |
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Years active | 1976–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
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
While studying, she made Pride of Place, a documentary about her boarding school that was shown at the
Career
Longinotto is an
She runs a production company, Vixen Films, which she founded in 1988 with Claire Hunt under the name Twentieth Century Vixen Productions.[9]
Filmography
- 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
Awards
- Shinjuku Boys (1995) was judged Outstanding Documentary at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
- Divorce Iranian Style (1998) won the Grand Prize for Best Documentary San Francisco International Film Festival and the Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival.
- Runaway (2001) received the Children Rights Award (Filmpreis für Kinderrechte) at the Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück
- The Day I Will Never Forget (2002) was awarded the Hot Docs.
- Sisters in Law (2005) won the Prix Art et Essai and Special Mention Europa Cinemas at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.
- Rough Aunties (2008) won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the Sheffield Doc/Fest2009.
- Pink Saris (2010) won the Special Jury Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest2010, where Longinotto also won the Inspiration Award, a trophy given to a figure in the documentary world who has championed the medium.
- Dreamcatchers (2015) received the Voice of a Woman (VOW) Award for Documentary[17]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lacey, Liam (6 May 2010). "Kim Longinotto: capturing women in movies". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ISBN 978-1-904764-90-8. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
Kim Longinotto.
- ISBN 978-0-313-28972-9. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
Kim Longinotto.
- ^ "WOMEN MAKE MOVIES - The Day I Will Never Forget". Wmm.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ^ "WOMEN MAKE MOVIES - Pink Saris". Wmm.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ^ "WOMEN MAKE MOVIES - Salma". Wmm.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ^ Brown, Maggie (1 November 2015). "'A lot of documentary makers look down on TV'". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
- ^ OCLC 775271646.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- ISBN 978-0-8143-3390-7.
- ^ a b Kira Cochrane (12 February 2010). "Kim Longinotto: 'Film-making saved my life'". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-19-518270-5.
- . Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ^ Cross And Passion; Belfast Film Festival
- ^ Kim Longinotto, Dreamcatcher, interviewmagazine.com. Accessed 31 December 2022.
- ^ Bryan, Maureen A. (10 October 2015), "Kim Longinotto", thevoiceofawoman.com. Accessed 31 December 2022.
External links
- Kim Longinotto at Women Make Movies
- Kim Longinotto at IMDb
- Kim Longinotto on YouTube