SALMA (WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION): FILM CLIPS (VO): " Clip #1" -
Salma directed by Kim Longinotto ( World Cinema Documentary Competition) Salma. Photo by Robert Herman. Synopsis Internationally‐acclaimed filmmaker Kim Longinotto (ROUGH AUNTIES, World Cinema Jury Prize in Documentary, Sundance 2009) returns to Sundance 2013 with the World Premiere of her new documentary. It’s the remarkable story of a woman who defies her village and became the legendary activist, politician and poet SALMA. When Salma reached puberty, her parents locked her away from the world. She spent nine years trapped in one small room. Millions of young girls endure the same sort of fate, but Salma refused to let the long years of imprisonment break her spirit. Using hoarded scrap paper, she managed to smuggle out poems that expressed her hidden anger and pain. The poems scandalized her community but inspired readers all over South India. Twenty‐five years later, Salma’s brave defiance is a rare beacon of hope. Like an unfolding detective story, this moving, passionate film charts the transformation of a frightened, isolated young girl into an unlikely hero. Kim Longinotto, Director / Brief Bio One of the foremost documentary filmmakers working today, Kim Longinotto is renowned for filming women’s stories. Longinotto made her first film, PRIDE OF PLACE, a critical look at her all‐girls' boarding school, while she studied at England's National Film School. THEATRE GIRLS, shot in a hostel for homeless women, followed. Longinotto's films have tackled a wide range of subjects, from an array of surprising and formidable Japanese women to a divorce court in Iran. She won a Peabody Award and the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Prix Art et Essai for SISTERS IN LAW, set in Kumba, Cameroon; and a Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, for HOLD ME TIGHT, LET ME GO which was set in a school for disturbed children IN OXFORSHIRE. Longinotto’s two most recent films are ROUGH AUNTIES (Sundance 2009 World Cinema Jury Prize in Documentary) and PINK SARIS (Sheffield Doc Fest Special Jury Prize). Her new film, SALMA (2013), will World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2013 SALMA 2010 PINK SARIS 2009 ROUGH AUNTIES 2007 HOLD ME TIGHT, LET ME GO 2005 SISTERS IN LAW 2002 THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET 2001 RUNAWAY 2000 GAEA GIRLS 1998 DIVORCE IRANIAN STYE 1995 SHINJUKU BOYS 1993 DREAM GIRLS 1992 THE GOOD WIFE OF TOKYO 1990 HIDDEN FACES 1989 EAT THE KIMONO 1978 THEATR GIRLS 1976 PRIDE OF PLACE
A Women Make Movies Release “ SALMA ” Director Kim Longinotto Screenwriter Ollie Huddleston Executive Producers Hamish Mykura, Anna Miralis Editor Ollie Huddleston Composer Samuel Sim Sound Recordist Sara Lima Producer, Cinematographer Kim Longinotto Interpreter, Associate Producer Samyuktha PC 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection MUSICIANS John Mills Patrick Savage Nick Holland Bozidar Vukotic Lydia Lowndes-Northcott MUSIC Samuel Sim A Vixen Films Production for Channel 4