Kim Longinotto

Kim Longinotto (née Sally Anne Longinotto-Landseer; born 8 February 1948, London) is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination. Longinotto has made more than 20 films, usually featuring inspiring women and girls at their core. Her subjects have included female genital mutilation in Kenya, women standing up to rapists in India, and Salma (2013), the story of an Indian Muslim woman who smuggled poetry out to the world while locked up by her family for decades.