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Kim Longinotto is a Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography and Cinematography British born on 1 january 1952 at London (United-kingdom)

Kim Longinotto

Kim Longinotto
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 january 1952 (72 years) at London (United-kingdom)

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 studied camera and directing at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England, where she now tutors occasionally.

Biography

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 when she has continued to be a prolific documentary film maker.

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, reenactment and interviewing. Longinotto’s unobtrusiveness, which is an important part of observational documentary, gives the women on camera a certain voice and presence that may not have emerged with another documentary genre.

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Filmography of Kim Longinotto (6 films)

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Director

Sisters in Law, 1h44
Directed by Kim Longinotto
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Rating72% 3.6274153.6274153.6274153.6274153.627415
The film centres around four cases in Cameroon involving violence against women. It shows women seeking justice and effecting change on universal human interests issues. It also shows strong and positive images of women and children in Cameroon.

Scriptwriter

Sisters in Law, 1h44
Directed by Kim Longinotto
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Roles Writer
Rating72% 3.6274153.6274153.6274153.6274153.627415
The film centres around four cases in Cameroon involving violence against women. It shows women seeking justice and effecting change on universal human interests issues. It also shows strong and positive images of women and children in Cameroon.

Production

Camera

Team

Sisters in Law, 1h44
Directed by Kim Longinotto
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Roles Cinematography
Rating72% 3.6274153.6274153.6274153.6274153.627415
The film centres around four cases in Cameroon involving violence against women. It shows women seeking justice and effecting change on universal human interests issues. It also shows strong and positive images of women and children in Cameroon.