Kim Longinotto (born 1952) is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films which 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.
Longinotto was born to an Italian father and a Welsh mother in 1952, her father was a photographer who later went bankrupt. She was sent...
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Kim Longinotto (born 1952) is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films which 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.
Longinotto was born to an Italian father and a Welsh mother in 1952, her father was a photographer who later went bankrupt. She was sent to a draconian all-girls boarding school at the age of 10 where she found it hard to make friends due to the mistress forbidding anyone to talk to her for a term after becoming 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 film-maker Nick Broomfield to the National Film and Television School. Whilst studying she made a documentary about her boarding school which was shown at the London Film Festival, since then she...
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