Kim Longinotto

Kim Longinotto studied at National Film and Television School. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are United Kingdom. Works named in the authority record are Pink Saris, Salma, Dreamcatcher and Shooting the Mafia.

• Name — Kim Longinotto • Birth Name — Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer • Born — 8 February 1948 • Birthplace — London, England • Other Names — Kimona Landseer • Occupation — * Director • producer • cinematographer • Years Active — 1976–present

Born Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer to an Italian father and a Welsh mother on 8 February 1948; her father was a photographer who later went bankrupt. At the age of 10, she was sent to an all-girls boarding school, where she found it hard to make friends due to the mistress forbidding anyone to talk to her for a term after she became lost during a school trip. She discovered that her double-barreled "Landseer" surname was made-up so she dropped it and just kept Longinotto, adopting a new forename (Kim or Kimona). After a period of homelessness, she went to Essex University, where she studied English literature and writing. She later followed friend and future filmmaker Nick Broomfield to the National Film and Television School. While studying, she made Pride of Place, a documentary about her boarding school that was shown at the London Film Festival.

Longinotto is an observational filmmaker. Observational cinema, also known as direct cinema, free cinema or cinema verite, usually excludes certain documentary techniques such as advanced planning, scripting, staging, narration, lighting, re-enactment and interviewing. She runs a production company, Vixen Films, which she founded in 1988 with Claire Hunt under the name Twentieth Century Vixen Productions.

• Pride of Place (1976) – Director/Camera (as Kimona Landseer) • Theatre Girls (1978) – Director/Cinematographer • Cross and Passion (1981) – Director (with Claire Pollak) • Underage (1982) – Director/Cinematographer • Eat the Kimono (1989) – Director/Cinematographer • Hidden Faces (1990) – Director/Cinematographer • The Good Wife of Tokyo (1992) – Director • Dream Girls (1994) – Director/Cinematographer/Producer • Shinjuku Boys (1995) – Director/Cinematographer/Producer • Rock Wives (1996) (TV) – Director / Camera • Divorce Iranian Style (1998) – Director / Camera • Gaea Girls (2000) – Director/Cinematographer/Producer • Runaway (2001) – Director/Cinematographer • The Day I Will Never Forget (2002) – Director/Cinematographer • Sisters in Law (2005) – Co-director (with Florence Ayisi)/Cinematographer/Producer • Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (2007) – Director/Cinematographer/Producer • Rough Aunties (2008) – Director/ Cinematographer • Pink Saris (2010) – Director/Camera • Salma (2013) – Director / Camera • Love Is All (2014) – Director • Dreamcatcher (2015) – Director/Camera • Shooting the Mafia (2019) – Director/Camera/Cowriter • Dalton's Dream (2023)

Kim Longinotto is recorded with the occupation documentary filmmaker. Recorded with the occupation cinematographer. Recorded with the occupation film producer. Recorded with the occupation screenwriter. Recorded as film director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, film producer and cinematographer. Recorded at birth as Kimona Sally-Anne Longinotto-Landseer.