The School of Arts invites you to the annual Jarman Lecture, taking place on Thursday 17th March 2016 at 5pm in Jarman Studio 1, followed by a drinks reception in the Jarman building.
Prolific British documentary filmmaker, KIM LONGINOTTO will be discussing her films, her experience in the film industry and broader themes related to documentary cinema.
This event is free and open to all students and staff at the University of Kent as well as Kent Arts Network Members. If you would like to attend please RSVP to arts@kent.ac.uk so we have an idea of numbers for catering purposes.
Kim Longinotto is a British documentary filmmaker, well known for making films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination. Longinotto studied camera and directing at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England, where she now tutors occasionally. Longinotto was born to an Italian father and a Welsh mother; her father was a photographer who later went bankrupt. At the age of ten she was sent to a draconian all-girls boarding school, where she found it hard to make friends due to the mistress forbidding anyone to talk to her for a term after she became lost during a school trip. After a period of homelessness, Longinotto went on to Essex University to study English and European literature and later followed friend and future filmmaker, Nick Broomfield to the National Film and Television School. While studying, she made a documentary about her boarding school that was shown at the London Film Festival, since when she has continued to be a prolific documentary filmmaker. She has received a number of awards for her films over the years, including a BAFTA for her documentary Pink Saris (2010). Her filmography includes: Divorce Iranian Style (1998),The Day I Will Never Forget (2002), Sisters in Law (2005), and Dreamcatcher (2015).