Shooting The Mafia
Year: 2019Certificate: 15
- Director:
- Kim Longinotto
- Running Time:
- 94 mins
- Language:
- English, Italian
- English Subtitles:
- Na
- Country of Origin:
- Ireland, USA
- Genre(s):
- Biography, Documentary, Film
- Formats:
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 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.