The Molly Dineen Collection: Volume 1 (2-DVD set)

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The Ark (BBC Two, 1993) – Four films about London Zoo. [2] Won the BAFTA for Best Factual Series, a Special Commendation at the Prix Europa, won Voice of Viewers and Listeners Best Television Programme and Indies Documentaries and Features Award. She stops and draws breath. "But the telly thing's a bit like the food thing, isn't it? Broadcasters will say that's what people want and they'll say, sorry Molly, you get 1.5 million viewers and Big Brother gets 13 million. So you don't have a leg to stand on". Find sources: "Molly Dineen"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Television: AA Gill: What's the recipe today, Jamie?". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 21 January 2021. Despite the current vogue for documentary at the cinema, Dineen's films have remained firmly on television. She would love to see her work on the big screen, though. "I'm always begging my agent, "Can we try?" And he says, 'No Molly, not cinema, telly.'" She laughs. "When I did my first film I watched it on Radio Rentals outside the shop. I was so excited! It was on 20 screens!" She doesn't watch much TV these days, but she grew up entirely devoted to television: "Every day after school we used to come home and have two teacakes, a crumpet and watch telly solidly until my mother dragged us out of there screaming to do our homework. I loved it so much." 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.

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! 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.

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. 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.They had a reggae show called Bob and Beyond, but when I looked at the catalogue it was like 600 Bob Marley songs and nothing else. So I helped them develop a massive catalogue of reggae music,” he says. BD: We were at the BFI Southbank, and one lady got up after the screening and said, “‘you might not remember me, but I used to come to your shop, you were pushing me to continue my education because I was skipping school.” I would have never remembered it. I don’t make films about goodies and baddies because life is too complicated for that. There are two sides to every argument.” 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. 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.

TELEVISION / An original of the species: Mark Lawson praises Molly". The Independent. 22 October 2011 . Retrieved 21 January 2021.

Burning an Illusion 

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.

For non-corporate viewers, however, there are huge gaps. Although the film shows workers in Serco’s prisons and its asylum housing contracts in the UK, there is no mention of Yarl’s Wood – the immigration detention centre, where Channel 4’s undercover filming last year exposed staff members referring to residents as bitches and animals, and where the previous year 10 staff members lost their jobs after allegations of sexual assault and improper sexual conduct. There is also no mention of the controversial – and often very profitable – asylum detention centres in Australia. Nor is there any reference to the Serious Fraud Office investigation into the tagging contract. An asylum-seeker thanks Serco for a small room, saying: 'To me it is a villa' 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. BD: One of my first escapades into producing was in 1983, I was going to celebrate Rasta Christmas on 7th January 1984, which is Ethiopian Christmas day. That dance is on YouTube, with Sugar Minott, Don Carlos, Junior Reid. Sugar Minott told me to make my own riddims to avoid paying publishing. I didn’t know nothing about this, so he showed me what to do. He had musicians so we went to the studio and in two days we created 24 riddims. Some of them ended up on Sugar Minott’s album Herbman Hustling. Dineen cheerfully refers to the job as a bit of “prostitution”, and makes it clear that it isn’t a documentary. “You can’t call it a documentary; there is no spirit of inquiry. I am doing something for a particular reason – the company has self-loathing issues,” she says. But she won't - at least not until her children are a bit older. Dineen has three young children with her husband, William Sieghart, and she is aware that making a documentary requires a total immersion in the subject that leaves little time for family.

Heart of the Angel (BBC Two, 1989) – Capturing life in Angel Tube Station, one of the busiest on the London Underground. [2] [3] [6] Won Royal Television Society Documentary Award. [ citation needed] Nelson Mandela in Brixton during his state visit to Britain in 1996. Photograph: Tim Graham/Getty Images Geri came about because she had wanted to make a film dealing with the issue of celebrity, and was invited to discuss making a documentary with the Spice Girls. "It would have been quite a not kind film," she says, "because I was so upset by the concept, by these girls projecting a very sexy image and their audience were six, and they're there in their thongs and boob tubes and high shoes. I remember crying. I must have been very hormonal." Molly Dineen has shot pop stars, primates – and prime ministers. As her first film in a decade comes to BBC Two, she talks to Ben Lawrence 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”.