Molly Dineen

Molly Dineen
Born	Toronto, Ontario
Occupation	Television documentary director, cinematographer and producer

Molly Dineen (born 7 March 1959 in Toronto, Ontario) is a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award winning UK television documentary director, cinematographer and producer. Dineen is mostly known for The Lie of the Land (2007), The Lord's Tale (2002), and Geri (1999). Dineen has been married to William Sieghart, who she had three children with.

Molly Dineen is one of Britain’s most acclaimed contemporary documentary filmmakers, known for her intimate and probing portraits of British individuals and institutions, and recipients of numerous accolades, including BAFTA, Grierson and RTS awards for documentary.

Born in Canada and brought up in Birmingham she originally studied photography at the Bourneville School of Art, then at the London College of Printing but switched to cinematography Photographing people was her major interest, which is what led her into taking film classes at The National Film and Television School. It was there where she first achieved widespread recognition for her 16 mm 1987 Home from the Hill Dineen’s much loved debut follows charismatic Colonel Hilary Hook, an elderly retired soldier, as he returns from Kenya to Britain. This film was picked up by BBC for its 40 minute segments, conflicting with the film's total duration of an hour. The film had to be cut twenty minutes, something that Dineen was not too happy about, as she was rarely allowed to spend any time with the editor in the cutting room. These two different versions are now available on DVD, as they were released in 2011 by the British Film Institute.

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