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Shooting the Mafia

Kim Longinotto

22.06 Palace 21:00
Documentary . 97' . Ireland, USA . 2019 . Italian / ST : FR, NL, EN

Sicilian Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first dared to point her camera at a brutally slain victim. Exposing the Cosa Nostra’s barbaric reign, she bore unflinching witness to their crimes and has led a life continually defined by defiance and passion.

STARRING

Letizia Battaglia

Maria Chiara Di Trapani

Santi Caleca

Eduardo Rebulla

Franco Zecchin

Roberto Timperi

WRITER

Kim Longinotto

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Kim Longinotto

SOUND

Michelle Fingleton

MUSIC

Ray Harman

FILM EDITING

Ollie Huddleston

PRODUCTION

LUNAR PICTURES Film

DISTRIBUTION

MetFilm Sales / Charades

Kim Longinotto

DIRECTOR_Longinotto_Kim

Kim Longinotto is a multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker, well known for making films about female outsiders and rebels. Among her 20 films, she has followed a teenager struggling to become a wrestling star in Gaea Girls (2000), looked at runaway girls in Iran in Runaway (2001), challenged the tradition of female genital mutilation in Kenya in The Day I Will Never Forget (2002), introduced Cameroon female judges in Sisters in Law (2005) and brave South African child advocates in Rough Aunties (2008), shown women standing up to rapists in India in Pink Saris (2010), and told the story of an Indian Muslim woman who smuggled poetry out to the world while locked up by her family in Salma (2013). Longinotto’s most recent film, Dreamcatcher (2015), looks at the life and work of an ex-prostitute who rescues Chicago girls from the street.

FILMOGRAPHY

2000 : GAEA GIRLS (documentary)

2001 : RUNAWAY unaway (documentary)

2002 : THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET (documentary)

2005 : SISTERS IN LAW (documentary)

2008 : ROUGH AUNTIES (documentary)

2010 : PINK SARIS  (documentary)

2013 : SALMA  (documentary)

2015 : DREAMCATCHER (documentary)

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