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
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)