Award-winning film maker Kim Longinotto on the struggle for funding,low self esteem – and telling difficult storiesKim Longinotto tells me several times during our interview that she has “very low self-esteem”, adding that “not being a very confident person” may hold helped her 30-year career in documentary filmmaking.
Its not the normal chitchat you’d expect from someone set to join the likes of Sir David Attenborough, and John Pilger and Norma Percy in becoming the recipient of a Grierson Trustee Award for documentary film tonight. But then Longinotto has spent much of her career stuggling to get her work funded,let alone noticed.
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Source: theguardian.com