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Killing Girls
Original title	Killing Girls
Type	Documentaries
Director	David Kinsella
Short summary	St. Petersburg, Russia. An abortion clinic that specializes in late term teenage abortions. Young girls arrive at the clinic through the back door, sometimes with their mother or a friend. But all of them have to go through it alone.
Summary	St. Petersburg, Russia. An abortion clinic that specializes in late term teenage abortions. Young girls arrive at the clinic through the back door, sometimes with their mother or a friend. But all of them have to go through it alone. Here, abortions are performed even after 7 months of pregnancy. The procedure is standard. When the girls arrive at the weekend, they are put in one big ward. All at the same time, eight girls are given drinks in order to encourage their contractions to start on Monday morning. When the contractions start the doctors and nurses will help the girls to deliver. Most girls do not want to see their babies. They stay for the night and in the early morning they leave the clinic again to get back to their lives. Killing Girls is a story about moral and economic choices in today’s Russian society. It is the story of three girls that at one point in their life decided to end a pregnancy at a late term. It is the story of the doctor who performs these late term abortions. Who are these people? What is their story? In the film we follow these characters closely for three years. Through them we learn about the living conditions for the younger generation in Russia, those that dream of a glamorous western lifestyle, but are condemned to live hunting for money to buy a moment of happiness. Nobody has time to have children any longer. Fighting to find an income in a society with badly paid work, children have become a problem.
Screenplay	Anna Sirota, David Kinsella
D.O.P	David Kinsella
Producer	Ivar Hartviksen, David Kinsella
Production company	David Kinsella Productions AS \| Egedes Gate 50 \| N-8656 Mosjøen \| tel +47 90 92 33 25 \| e-mail david (at) davidkinsella.com
Country of origin	Norway
Release date (national)	2009-03
Technical information
Format	DIGIBETA
Colour	Colour
Length in min's	79' 31''
Festival participation	2009 Kosmorama Film Festival 2009 Eurodok, Norway 2009 Den norske dokumentarfilmfestivalen, Volda 2009 Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad 2009 Pärnu Int. Documentary and Anthropological Film Festival, Estonia 2009 Galway International Film Festival, Ireland 2009 Golden Chest International Television Festival, Bulgaria 2009 Foyle Film Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland 2010 Thessalonoki International Documentary Film Festival 2010 Beograd Short & Documentary Film Festival, Serbia 2010 Flying Broom Int. Womens Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey
Prizes received	2009: Nominated for the National Film Award Amanda for Best Documentary 2009 Golden Chest International Television Festival, Bulgaria: The Golden Chest Grand Prix for Best Television Documentary
URL	http://www.davidkinsella.com

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Director biography:
Director David Kinsella David Kinsella (b. 1964), is originally a stills-photographer from Belfast, presently living in Norway. He is highly merited and has won the most significant prices for his work world wide. He is Documentary Press Photographer of the Year several times since he won the price the first time at the age of 16 in 1981. He has won both The Great Picture Contest in the USA and the Fuji Press Photographer prize.

Filmography:
2008: Killing Girls
2007: A beautiful Tragedy
2005: Love letters from a Children's Prison