Margaret Dickinson
Directing
Known For
They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.
Right to Work March
A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband, the lawyer, the couple’s parents and their “home help”, a picture emerges of the transactional nature and economic fall-out of marriage, along with issues of class and gender politics affecting single mothers.
Exchange and Divide
A portrait of the past and present of the city of Dunfermline, Scotland's ancient capital.
Dunfermline
A portrait of the Scottish town of Ayr.
A Town Called Ayr
A portrait of Mrs Khadeeja Begum, a widowed Pakistani mother of two in 1970s Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
Oh for the Wings of a Dove
Four women speak movingly to the camera on their experience of the General Strike and life in the 1930s and 40s in a depressed South Welsh mining village.
Women of the Rhondda
A film about construction workers and the building of the Stratford Olympic Park.
Builders and the Games
Documentary on the struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime in Mozambique, focusing on the organization of civilian life in the liberated areas. Filmed in 1970 in Niassa, it was supported by the Mozambican liberation movement FRELIMO.