There are many awesome female documentarians but Kim Longinotto is at the top of the field. A retrospective of her 30 year body of work will featured at the Museum of Modern Art this month in NYC. Longinotto is known for documenting untold stories of women from around the globe.
The series opens with the New York premiere of Rough Aunties (2009), about a group of women who protect and care for the neglected children of Durban, South Africa. The film was awarded the World Cinema Jury Prize in Documentary at this year‘s Sundance Film Festival and will have its national broadcast premiere on HBO in 2010.
Other films being screened include:
Pride of Place, 1978, a revealing look at the strict treatment of young women in a girls’ boarding school, which she had formerly attended.
Theatre Girls, 1979, a film shot in the calamitous atmosphere of a 24-hour admitting hostel for homeless women.
Sisters in Law (2005, co-directed with Florence Ayisi), about two bold and progressive-minded women in Kumba, Cameroon, who help victims of abuse speak up and out against their oppressors,
Divorce Iranian Style (1998, co-directed with Ziba Mir-Hosseini), which over the course of several weeks follows the complex social and legal customs surrounding Iranian divorce from the inside perspective of a Tehran divorce court
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (2007), a look inside Oxfordshire‘s Mulberry Bush School where emotionally traumatized children are treated with restraint and sensitivity (winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2008 International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, with its national broadcast premiere taking place on July 28 on PBS’s P.O.V.).
Dream Girls (1993), about a popular ―women only‖ musical theater company in Japan where young women are sent to study both male and female 2
roles (winner of Best Documentary at Films de Femmes, Creteil)
Shinjuku Boys (1995), which follows three Japanese onnabes‘—gender-bending women who live as men and have girlfriends (named Outstanding Documentary at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and winner of the Gold Prize at the Houston Film Festival).
Director Longinotto will participate in post-screening discussions with the audience for the screenings of Rough Aunties (May 7), Divorce Iranian Style (May 8), Hold Me Tight (May 9), and Sisters in Law (May 10).
More info on screening times here
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