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    Theatre Girls

    Kim Longinotto 1975 England Documentary b/w 82min 16mm
    In the bustling and flourishing Soho Area of London, many people actively search for their dreams. But there are a group of women living at a hostel here because of being homeless. Kim Longinotto shot the life of two of the women for two and a half months to show how they make a living in this big city, find their way out, but at the same time are deprived of the right to own a home. In an exquisite female stand points, Kim Longinotto explores the hard bitten process of the two homeless women. This film has entered lots of film festivals and won the special award in the Tuor Film Festival in France.

    Director

    Kim Longinotto

    Kim Longinotto studied camera and directing at England's National Film School. In 1986, Longinotto formed the production company Twentieth Century Vixen with Claire Hunt. Together they made Fireraiser, a look at the bombing of Dresden; Eat the Kimono, about the controversial Japanese feminist performer Hanayagi Genshu; Hidden Faces, the internationally acclaimed, collaborative documentary with/about Egyptian women; and The Good Wife of Tokyo in which they examine women, love and marriage in Japanese society.

    Kim Longinotto

    2005 Sister in Law

    2002 Day I Will Never Forget

    2000 Gaea Girls

    1998 Divorce Iranian Style

    1996 Rock Wives(ㄒV)

    1995 Shinjuku Boys

    1994 Dream Girls

    1992 Good Wife of Tokyo

    1990 Hidden Faces

    1989 Eat the Kimono

    1982 Underage

    1976 Pride of Place

    1975 Theatre Girls

    Directors/ Kim Longinotto & Claire Pollak

    Cinematographer/ Kim Longinotto

    Print Source: National Film and Television School Hemant Sharda

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    Email: festivals@nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk

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