Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Release: Shooting the Mafia

Digital, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 24, 2020
Price: DVD $19.99, Blu-ray $15.53
Studio: Cohen Media

Shooting the Mafia is filmmaker Kim Longinotto’s documentary film about a photojournalist who, at great personal risk, devoted herself to covering organized crime in Italy.

Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first dared to point her camera at a brutally slain victim. A woman whose passions led her to abandon traditional family life and become a photojournalist in the 1970s, Battaglis was the first female photographer to be employed by a daily Italian newspaper. She ultimately found herself on the front lines during one of the bloodiest chapters in Italy’s recent history, capturing everyday Sicilian life – from weddings and funerals to the grisly murders of ordinary citizens – to tell the story of how the community she loved in her native Palermo was forced into silence by the Cosa Nostra.

The film weaves together Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs, rare archival footage, classic Italian films, and the now 84-year-old’s own memories.

Supplements on both the Blu-ray and DVD include the featurette “Conversation with Director Kim Longinotto.”