Molly Dineen
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Biography: Born in Canada and brought up in Birmingham, England, Molly Dineen is one of the UK's most acclaimed contemporary documentary filmmakers. She is known for her intimate and probing portraits of British individuals and institutions, including her debut film, 1985's Home From The Hill. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including BAFTA, Grierson and RTS awards for documentary.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Female
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Geri
Overview: TV documentary which shows the roller-coaster career of the former Spice Girl, Geri Halliwell, including very candid behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with her.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-02
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Home from the Hill
Overview: Documentary about Colonel Hilary Hook, formerly of the Indian cavalry and leader of extravagant safaris in Kenya. Hook returned home to England after being evicted from his home in the Kenya Hills, and is finding it hard to readjust to the English way of life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-02
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My African Farm
Overview: An old white woman colonial settler staying on in up-country Kenya.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-28
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Heart of the Angel
Overview: This film documents one day in the life of Angel station on the Northern Line of the London Underground in the days before its refurbishment. We see the ticket collectors, station manager and other staff as they cope with angry passengers, lift failures and cancelled trains.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-23
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In the Company of Men
Overview: Documentary about life in the Welsh Guards regiment's Prince of Wales Company, led by Major Crispin Black. Filmmaker Molly Dineen gains unique access to the company as they protect an RUC police station during a tour of Northern Ireland in the mid '90s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-02
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Party Election Broadcast for the Labour Party
Overview: A 1997 Labour Party Political Broadcast that focused primarily on the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Blair. Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Molly Dineen, the broadcast was shown on all four channels on 24th April, 1997
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-24
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The Ark
Overview: Documentary filmed behind the scenes at London Zoo as it struggles to survive in the face of financial difficulties following the withdrawal of government subsidies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-01
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Being Blacker
Overview: After a ten year absence, acclaimed filmmaker Molly Dineen is back with a new feature documentary: Being Blacker; an intimate portrait of Jamaican-born reggae producer, businessman, father, son and prominent community figure, Blacker Dread. 40 years after featuring in Dineen’s first film, Blacker and his family, friends and community in South London face the combined challenges of rapid social change, gentrification, inequality, poverty, crime and racism as they seek to secure their futures. Made with intimacy and warmth, the film takes us deep into Blacker’s world as he buries his mother, closes his business and faces prison for the first time. Being Blacker offers a rarely-heard perspective on life in Britain today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-22
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The Lords' Tale
Overview: This film documents the preparations and the impact of an important historic change to the UK's political process: the abolition of many hereditary peers - Lords whose title is handed down from father/mother to son/daughter as opposed to those whose title is earned by their actions. Who and what will replace these hereditary peers as the upper house at Westminster?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-03
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The Lie of the Land
Overview: A very incisive and hard-hitting documentary about the way in which life for farmers and other people who depend on the countryside for their livelihood is changing for the worse as a result of the decline in home-grown food and the banning of fox-hunting. Farmers are having to kill calves which it is uneconomical to keep, paying token amounts to the local fox-hunt as unofficial knackers to dispose of the carcases for feeding to the fox-hounds. Why should society seem to care so much about the fate of hunted foxes and yet apparently so little about what happens to unwanted cattle which are cross-breed or the wrong sex? There is great resentment (as typified by the Countryside Alliance marches in London) to changes that are being imposed by a government that people in the country feel is neglecting their wishes in preference to those of the city-dwellers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-03
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Capturing Reality
Overview: From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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