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Director, Producer, Actor, Editor, Sound/Sound Designer Born: London, England Biography:British born Nick Broomfield has filmed in brothels, military training camps, and detention homes to create his sometimes controversial documentaries. "I'm not making a film where there are going to be a lot of experts in white coats telling the audience what the situation is," Broomfield told Prairie Miller of Mini Reviews, "I don't like those kinds of films." He studied law at the University of Cardiff and political science at Essex University before entering, and eventually graduating from, the National Film School. By 1971 he had completed his first 18-minute film titled "Who Cares", which documented Liverpool residents who had been transplanted to a suburban high rise.
Broomfield's career can be divided into two parts, represented by two distinct styles. Between the late '70s and mid-'80s, he filmed in a cinema vérité style, working with cinematographers "Joan Churchill" and "Sandi... Full Biography
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