Rough Aunties

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Rough Aunties
Directed byKim Longinotto
Produced byTeddy Leifer, Paul Taylor
Release date
  • 23 November 2008 (2008-11-23) (IDFA Festival)
Running time
103 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
South Africa
LanguagesEnglish
Zulu

Rough Aunties is a 2008 documentary film directed by Kim Longinotto about a group of 5 women of Operation Bobbi Bear who protect and care for abused, neglected and forgotten children in Durban, South Africa.[1] It was produced by Teddy Leifer and Paul Taylor[2].

It won the Grand Jury Prize in the 'World Cinema — Documentary' category at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.[3]

References

  1. Cochrane, Kira (12 February 2010). "Kim Longinotto: 'Film-making saved my life'". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  2. Koehler, Robert (28 January 2009). "Rough Aunties". Variety. Retrieved 15 May 2026.
  3. Turan, Kenneth (25 January 2009), "THE REGION; Nightmarish 'Push' a triple Sundance winner; 'We Live in Public' takes the grand jury prize for documentary. 'Rough Aunties' is top world documentary.", Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 7 November 2012, retrieved 6 July 2011