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Documenting Women's Rites: An Interview with Filmmaker Kim Longinotto


It's difficult to get too far along in a discussion about British documentaries without Kim Longinotto's name coming up. Over the last 20 years she has built a unique body of work, and is much

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Kim Longinotto On Fostering Intimacy With Her Subjects and Giving a Voice to Women’s Stories in Dreamcatcher

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Do the Right Thing - Screenshot podcast

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

How Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing' Still Resonates Today

25 Years Later, How Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing' Changed Race Relations In America

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Stories We Tell - the Guardian Film Show review

Do the Right Thing (5/10) Movie CLIP - Racist Stereotypes (1989) HD

Pan's Labyrinth

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