Kim Longinotto is one of the pre-eminent documentary filmmakers working today. She is renowned for creating extraordinary human portraits and tackling controversial topics with sensitivity and compassion. Longinotto's films have won international acclaim and dozens of premiere awards at festivals worldwide, including the World Cinema Jury Prize in Documentary at Sundance for Rough Aunties.

Highlights include perhaps one of her best known works, Sisters in Law (2005), winner of a 2008 Peabody Award and two Cannes awards, including the Cannes Prix Art et Essai Award; The Day I Will Never Forget (2003), which won the Amnesty International DOEN Award at IDFA and Best Doc UK Spotlight at Hot Docs; the recent Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (2007), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA); The BAFTA Award-winning Divorce Iranian Style (1998); Dream Girls (1993), winner of Best Documentary at Films de Femmes, Creteil; and Shinjuku Boys (1995), winner for Outstanding Documentary at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

In this event recording, Kim Longinotto talks to Mark Cosgrove, Watershed’s Head of Programme, about her life, career, and body of work.

Posted on Fri 21 Sept 2012.

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