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! I don’t make films about goodies and baddies because life is too complicated for that. There are two sides to every argument.” 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." 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.

The Grenfell Tower fire last July changed everything, says Dineen, and she is currently considering her next move – mindful that she doesn’t want to make a film specifically about the tragedy, wary of how opportunistic that might seem. She hopes to make a film about the area that will tell not only the story of Grenfell, but also the wider story of the local councillors who faced the moral opprobrium of residents. “I have to work out how to take it forward,” she says. “There is the community who are fighting for its survival, but I would also like to film compassionately with Kensington councillors too, at least the ones who understand the situation.I said yes because it’s such an incredibly interesting company … it is a very strange beast, covering such an unbelievable variety of types of people, across different territories,” she says. “When you say the word Serco – it’s quite interesting the strength of bad name it has got.” Making it was satisfying, she says, because it was like being given access to the Ladybird books of how the world works. They say: ‘This is John, he makes steel’ and ‘This is Paul, he runs a prison.’ If you are me and you’re nosy and think access to places is key, it is fabulous.” Molly Dineen: Notes from the underground". The Independent. 23 October 2011 . Retrieved 21 January 2021.

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. Gentleman, Amelia (25 April 2016). "Selling Serco: documentary-maker Molly Dineen on why she shot a corporate promo". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 May 2023. 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 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' 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.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. 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. Dineen started off studying photography before switching to film. "The film-making maybe suited me," she says. "It's a very interesting thing if you can marry your character with a job and it works somehow, and all I mean by that is that I've always been a nosy git for quite a long time."