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Molly Dineen

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.

Known For

Geri
6.5

Geri Halliwell, the most colourful and outrageous of the Spice Girls, has dramatically left the band. Two days later, Dineen joins her as she dodges the paparazzi and seeks solace with family and friends in a fascinating rollercoaster ride through fame, celebrity and the personality behind that infamous Union Jack dress. 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.

Geri

1999
Party Election Broadcast for the Labour Party
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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

Party Election Broadcast for the Labour Party

1997
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A series of four documentaries filmed behind the scenes at London Zoo as it fights for its future.

The Ark

1993
Capturing Reality
6.1

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?

Capturing Reality

2008
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Documentary lamenting the state of the British motorbike industry in the mid-eighties and looking back on the better old days.

The Leather Boys

1984
The Lie of the Land
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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.

The Lie of the Land

2007
Sound Business
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Originally aired in 1981 and later virtually lost for decades, Sound Business is a UK-produced documentary about two British sound systems, the legendary (and at the time already 18 years-established) Sir Coxsone Outernational and the (then) up-and-coming Lion Charge, both based in SW London.

Sound Business

1981
In the Company of Men
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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.

In the Company of Men

1995
Being Blacker
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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.

Being Blacker

2018
Heart of the Angel
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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.

Heart of the Angel

1989
The Pick, the Shovel and the Open Road
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Documentary which follows three gangs of migrant Irish street workers as they tunnel beneath the streets of London to lay pipes.

The Pick, the Shovel and the Open Road

1991
The Ark
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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.

The Ark

1993
My African Farm
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An old white woman colonial settler staying on in up-country Kenya.

My African Farm

1988
Home from the Hill
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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.

Home from the Hill

1987
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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.

In the Company of Men

1995
The Lords' Tale
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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?

The Lords' Tale

2002