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Shooting the Mafia, GFT

29 November – 5 December, 2019

In the streets of Sicily, beautiful, gutsy Letizia Battaglia pointed her camera straight into the heart of the Mafia that surrounded her and began to shoot. The striking, life-threatening photos she took documenting the rule of the Cosa Nostra define her career. Shooting The Mafia weaves together Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs, rare archival footage, classic Italian films, and the now 84-year-old’s own memories, to paint a portrait of a remarkable woman whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Mafia’s brutal crimes.

Kim Longinotto films rebels and outsiders, from a family court in Tehran to Indian female pioneers.

Her many award-winning films include Divorce Iranian Style; Gaea Girls; Runaway; The Day I Will Never Forget; Sisters in Law; Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go; Rough Aunties; Pink Saris; Salma; and Love Is All. Her documentary Dreamcatcher opened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where it earned Longinotto the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award.

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30 November Screening

The screening is presented by charity Birds’ Eye View’s Reclaim The Frame initiative: A mission to bring ever-greater audiences to films by women to widen and enrich cinema’s perspective of the world, backed by the British Film Institute’s Audience Fund. Join the #ReclaimTheFrame mission and receive free cinema tickets, discount codes and other film goodies.

Join Mia Bays, Birds’ Eye View Director-At-Large for a post-screening panel discussion where she will be joined by Shooting The Mafia producer Niamh Fagan.

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GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB

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