Where to watch

Award Winner, Biography/ People of Interest, Crime and Justice, Politics, Sundance Selection, Women + Director, Women-Centered Stories

Shooting the Mafia

A Fiscally Sponsored Project

Director:

Kim Longinotto

Producers:

Niamh Fagan

2019

94 minutes

Shooting the Mafia weaves together Letizia 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.

Awards

2019 Audience Award International Competition Winner- Brussels International Film Festival
2019 Guerilla Staff Best Film Award- Biografilm Festival, Italy
2019 Grand Prix Nominee-BATUMI International Arthouse Film Festival
2019 Panorama Audience Award (3rd Place)- Berlin International Film Festival

Honors

2019 Bronze Horse Best Documentary Nominee- Stockholm Film Festival
2019 Grand Jury Prize Nominee – Sundance Film Festival
2019 Nominee Tiempo de Historia Award- Vallodolid International Film Festival
2019 Best International Film Nomineee- DocAviv Film Festival
2019 Lodz Nominee Transatlantyk Festival

Official Selections

2019 Sundance Film Festival
2019 Berlinale International Film Festival, Germany
2019 CPH DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark
2019 Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, Ireland
2019 Hot Docs Toronto Documentary Film Festival, Canada
2019 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece
2019 Vilnius Film Festival, Lithuania
2019 DocAviv Film Festival, Israel
2019 Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Poland
2019 DOK Fest Munich Film Festival, Germany
2019 Oslo Pix Film Festival, Norway
2019 Biografilm Film Festival
International Celebration of Lives, Bologna, Italy
2019 Sydney International Film Festival, Australia
2019 Festival Mix Milano (Immaginara & Mix IFF), Italy
2019 BFI London Film Festival, UK