MD: But then she said that she was now working for the BFI, and that’s why she was sitting here, and wanted to thank him. Operation Raleigh, The Mountain, The Village (BBC Two, 1988) – Operation Raleigh was founded by the Prince of Wales to give young people the benefit of war time in peace. Two 30-minute films about an expedition to Southern Chile. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. Part of what was depressing staff was that their families had very little understanding of what they were doing, and only saw the constant flow of negative headlines, which is why he turned to Dineen. He describes the film as a “mirror on the company”, and as “about as far from being a guff- and puff-filled corporate video as you can imagine”.

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Home from the Hill – 1985 BBC Two documentary about Lieutenant-Colonel Hilary Hook's return to the UK after living abroad. [2] [3] [6] Won Royal Television Society Prize. First Prize at Anthropos Documentary Festival, Los Angeles. TV Suisse Rommande Prize. American Gillian Pachter gave us The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story, an hour-and-a-half documentary, unaccountably crammed into three long hours on successive nights on BBC Four. She tried extremely hard not to bring her modern sensibilities to the sorry tale of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, nor crude judgmentalism to our country of 1955, when air aces and rally stars came from one class and platinum-blond hostesses from very much another, and Hampstead still had its seamy side, and prosecutors could still be called things like Christmas Humphreys, but ultimately failed. His youngest son, JJ, is away, too, with his mother, the supremely wise Maureen. They moved to go to a better school. Yeah, that old one – except JJ moved to Jamaica. In London, he was always in trouble and was told he didn’t belong in a mainstream school. In Jamaica, he’s an A student. Tony Blair, a short profile of the Prime Minister produced as a party political broadcast and screened on all four channels for the general election campaign in 1997. [11] BD: The opportunities to meet people and make connections. They are dwindling down, but they still exist. I’m always accessible, if someone sees me and wants to talk to me, I’ll stop and talk to them. I don’t know, you could be telling me how to become a millionaire!

a b c d e f g h Walsh, John (26 April 2011). "Molly Dineen: Notes from the underground". The Independent . Retrieved 21 March 2018. Though she accumulated much critical acclaim for her earlier work, it was the short film about Blair that brought Dineen to the attention of the general public, followed by the Geri Halliwell documentary. She looks faintly embarrassed at the subject now. "Well, that was all post-childbirth," she says with a laugh. "The good thing was cruising round Westminster discussing breast pumps with Tony Blair. And the bad thing was that it was a nightmare, it was a struggle, because of course you end up fighting for what it is you think you should do and want to do." The Lie of the Land (Channel 4, 2007) – On the eve of the fox hunting ban, Dineen explores life in the British countryside, where farmers struggle to survive under the weight of government legislation and national indifference towards rural communities. [2] [3] Won the BAFTA for Best Single Documentary, Grand Jury Prize at Visions du Reel in Nyon, Grierson Award for Best Single Documentary on a Contemporary Issue.Does she find it difficult to let go of the issues she covers in her films? "I feel it hard to let go of an issue I care about deeply because it affects me and how I live my life and I don't like it," she says, after some consideration. "I won't do the supermarket thing at the moment - it's too raw. Funnily enough, I also got rather impassioned about the amalgamation of regiments. I thought, even I understand that a regiment is based on a real, tribal loyalty, like football teams used to be, and certainly supporters are - and that's another of these dysfunctional things of modern life: how can you be loyal to what is basically now a multimillion-pound business, where players are just bought in for millions, have nothing to do with where they are? What are you loyal to? It's very interesting. I'd document that like a shot." Molly Dineen is a television documentary director, cinematographer and producer. One of Britain's most acclaimed documentary filmmakers, Dineen is known for her intimate and probing portraits of British individuals and institutions. [1] [ bettersourceneeded] Her work includes The Lie of the Land (2007), examining the decline of the countryside and British farming, The Ark (1993) about London Zoo during Thatcherism, and the Lords' Tale (2002), which examined the removal of hereditary peers.

a b c d e f g Barton, Laura (1 June 2007). " 'I've always been a nosy git' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 13 March 2018.Dineen, 48, first came to public attention in 1985 with Home from the Hill, a documentary she made at film school about a retired colonel, Hilary Hook, making his return to the UK from Africa. Later, she filmed The Ark, about London zoo, Heart of the Angel, about Angel tube station in London, and In the Company of Men, about a company of the Welsh Guards regiment of the British army. There were more surprising films, too: a 10-minute party election broadcast about Tony Blair, for example, screened in 1997, and Geri, about Geri Halliwell, filmed in the aftermath of her departure from the Spice Girls. In 2002, she returned to more identifiably Dineen territory with The Lord's Tale, about the reformation of the House of Lords. The Lie of the Land, which was also screened at this year's Hay festival, was really born out of The Lord's Tale. "I was there filming when the fox hunting bill came lumbering through after the Commons and all that," she explains, "and I just thought, why?" She toyed with the idea of making a documentary about the end of fox hunting, but as she began filming she grew increasingly interested in an uneasy transaction that takes place between the hunts and the farming community, the "flesh run" - for a nominal sum, the hunt collects the unwanted cattle it would cost the farmers vast sums to dispose of properly and use the meat to feed their hunting dogs. As played on the BBC, emphasising Dineen’s BAFTA-winning credentials and the three years it took to make the film. However heavy the responsibility, Dineen did a great job of humanising the Blairs, with a superb moneyshot of Tony and Cherie pottering about in their Islington kitchen. And that is what Dineen does – she makes you care about the individual. As a rule, the subjects of her films are more taciturn than Tony Blair. When she gives them room to express themselves they often do so with a suppressed sort of anger. a b c d e f Malcolm, Gabrielle (28 April 2011). "The Birthplace of Reality TV Celebrities: 'The Molly Dineen Collection' ". popmatters.com . Retrieved 21 March 2018.