There was little to hint at Letizia Battaglia’s skill as a crime-scene photographer. In her 40s, stuck in a stuffy bourgeois household and battling with depression, she took a job as a photographer for a Palermo-based newspaper. Planning to document ordinary people’s lives, she soon found herself recording the reign of terror inflicted on the city’s inhabitants by the Mafia. Those photographs are, by turns, visually dazzling and shocking. Narrated by Battaglia, who is now in her 80s, Shooting the Mafia is a poignant and inspiring account of a free-spirited woman profoundly attached to her city and ready to fight for it regardless of the danger to her own life.

Join host, Mia Bays, Birds’ Eye View Director-At-Large and Oscar winning producer

for a post-screening discussion on the film’s themes, and more.

With guests:

Dr Gigliola Sulis, Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Leeds

for a discussion about themes raised in the film.

 

 

Directed by Kim Longinotto

Runtime: 97 minutes