Kim Longinotto Speaks with Lou Bolch (Community Channel)

Source: Community Channel

Journalist Lou Bolch interviews Kim Longinotto, director of DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET, SHINJUKU BOYS, HOLD ME TIGHT LET ME GO, RUNAWAY, DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, HIDDEN FACES and SISTERS IN LAW. Watch the interview on Community Channel. Longinotto explains her unique approach to filming difficult subject matter and intimate situations. She reminisces about the strong and inspiring women and girls portrayed in her documentaries and the bonds she manages to forge with them.

Kim Longinotto receives 2010 Outstanding Achievement Award

Kim Longinotto Named 2010 Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient

The Hot Docs Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has chosen celebrated UK filmmaker Kim Longinotto as the recipient of its Outstanding Achievement Award, which will be presented at the Hot Docs Awards Presentation on Friday, May 7, at the Isabel Bader Theatre. As part of the honour, Hot Docs will screen a retrospective during the 17th annual Festival, April 29-May 9, celebrating Longinotto’s distinguished career.

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About Kim Longinotto

Kim Longinotto’s films have won countless awards and have been shown at major film festivals around the world.  Loginotto is an acclaimed, respected and highly admired documentary filmmaker who uses the camera to bring faraway places up close.  She merges into the world of those she portrays, almost to the point of disappearing. You find yourself asking: how did she ever get that on film?  Wouldn’t having a stranger around (a stranger with a camera, no less) cause her subjects to fall silent? Perhaps Longinotto can document such intimate moments because she somehow melts into the scenery. (more…)

Kim Longinotto Retrospective

At the Museum of Modern Art, New York - May 7 to May 23, 2009

One of the foremost documentary filmmakers working today, Kim Longinotto is renowned internationally for her compellingly human portraits and her sensitive and compassionate treatment of difficult topics. By seeking out, observing, and following the untold stories of women’s daily lives, she has created cinéma vérité portraits of the larger society and cultural customs. Longinotto’s first film, Pride of Place, a critical look at a girls’ boarding school, was made while she studied camera and directing at England’s National Film School. Theatre Girls, shot in a hostel for homeless women, followed soon after. These films established Longinotto’s capacity for confronting some of the most difficult aspects of women’s realities around the world. After graduating from the NFS, she worked as the cameraperson on a variety of documentaries for TV and embarked on collaborations with several film partners. In 1986, she formed the production company Twentieth Century Vixen with Claire Hunt. (more…)