Review: Shooting the Mafia
Sarah Cullen takes a look at Kim Longinotto’s powerful documentary which strips back the glamorous image of the Sicilian Mafia, showing the harsh reality of life, death and business at the hands of those who wield it.
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Kim is a British documentary filmmaker who studied at NFTS after Uni in Essex. During her studies, she made a film about her former boarding school, which screened at the London Film Festival. Her films include Gaea Girls (2000), The Day I Will Never Forget (2002), Salma (2013), Dreamcatcher (2015) & Shooting the Mafia (2019), an Irish co-production that premiered at Sundance. She won a BAFTA for Pink Saris and received the 2026 Dragon of Dragons Award at the Kraków Film Festival.
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