Episode 2: In Conversation with Kim Longinotto
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Welcome to second episode of Modern Films podcast, in this episode we're excited to have film legend Kim Longinotto to discuss her storied career and latest documentary Shooting the Mafia, an eye-opening profile of Sicilian organised crime photographer Letizia Battaglia, in cinemas across UK and Ireland 29 November.
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"I have never seen a film that succeeded more completely in stripping the romantic and mythic aura from organised crime, and revealing the mafia" Film Comment
"The most arresting documentary work of the past few decades" Little White Lies
"A meld of portraiture and social history that is as tender, humane and generous as it is harrowing." Sight & Sound
" 'Shooting the Mafia' aptly conveys Battaglia's many layers, while exemplifying the power in not looking away" Roger Ebert
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