Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Letizia Battaglia: photographer, ecologist, politician, mother, free woman and out of the box, her ability to tell through the photographic lens about the mafia and Sicilian reality made her famous in the world. For Italians she is the most famous photojournalist, for the people of Palermo she remains simply "Letizia". A piercing-eyed figure who stands out in the crowd, Leica around her neck, in moments of joy as in those of desolation. She began her work at the Sicilian daily L'Ora, breaking the rules of a male-dominated journalistic world, launched the magazine Mezzocielo, an expression of women's social commitment, then committed herself to the front line against the Mafia alongside Leoluca Orlando in Palermo's municipal administration even before the 1992 massacres. Letizia is "battle" in name and in fact. This film draws on unpublished shots and testimonies to tell the story of the life of an indomitable pioneer of photography who contributed with her work to writing one of the fundamental pages of Italian history.