Molly Dineen
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Molly Dineen is a BAFTA and Royal Television Society
award winning UK television documentary
director, cinematographer
and producer.
Born in Canada and brought up in Birmingham
she originally studied photography at the London College of Printing but switched to cinematography. She first achieved widespread recognition for her 1987 Home from the Hill documentary about retired Colonel Hilary Hook
's return to the UK from Africa.
Other notable documentaries include The Heart of the Angel
, an edition of Cutting Edge
, The Ark, In the Company of Men (about a company of the Welsh Guards
regiment of the British Army), 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) and Geri (about Geri Halliwell
filmed shortly after she left The Spice Girls) and The Lord's Tale, about the hereditary lords losing their seats in the Lords due to the House of Lords Act 1999
.
She now lives in London with her husband and 3 children.
Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...
award winning UK television documentary
Television documentary
Documentary television is a genre of television programming that broadcasts documentaries.* Documentary television series, a television series which is made up of documentary episodes....
director, cinematographer
Cinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
and producer.
Born in Canada and brought up in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
she originally studied photography at the London College of Printing but switched to cinematography. She first achieved widespread recognition for her 1987 Home from the Hill documentary about retired Colonel Hilary Hook
Hilary Hook
Lieutenant-Colonel Hilary Hook was a soldier in armies of the British Empire in India and later in Africa.Hook was educated at Canford School, Dorset and after the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst he was commissioned into the Royal Tank Corps in 1938. He joined a cavalry regiment in India and...
's return to the UK from Africa.
Other notable documentaries include The Heart of the Angel
The Heart of the Angel
The Heart of the Angel is a 40-minute documentary made by director/producer Molly Dineen in 1989, before the renovation of the 100-year-old Angel London Underground station....
, an edition of Cutting Edge
Cutting Edge (Channel 4 TV series)
Cutting Edge is a British TV documentary series broadcast by Channel 4, it has been its flagship documentary series since 1990 that focuses on political and social issues.-Graham Taylor: The Impossible Job:Original airdate: 24 January 1994...
, The Ark, In the Company of Men (about a company of the Welsh Guards
Welsh Guards
The Welsh Guards is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division.-Creation :The Welsh Guards came into existence on 26 February 1915 by Royal Warrant of His Majesty King George V in order to include Wales in the national component to the Foot Guards, "..though the order...
regiment of the British Army), Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
(a short profile of the Prime Minister produced as a party political broadcast
Party political broadcast
A party political broadcast is a short television or radio broadcast made by a political party....
and screened on all four channels for the general election campaign in 1997) and Geri (about Geri Halliwell
Geri Halliwell
Geraldine Estelle "Geri" Halliwell is an English pop singer-songwriter, author and actress. After coming to international prominence in the late 1990s as Ginger Spice, a member of the girl group the Spice Girls, Halliwell launched her solo career in 1998 and released her album Schizophonic...
filmed shortly after she left The Spice Girls) and The Lord's Tale, about the hereditary lords losing their seats in the Lords due to the House of Lords Act 1999
House of Lords Act 1999
The House of Lords Act 1999 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was given Royal Assent on 11 November 1999. The Act reformed the House of Lords, one of the chambers of Parliament. For centuries, the House of Lords had included several hundred members who inherited their seats;...
.
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She now lives in London with her husband and 3 children.