Celebrated documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield’s next documentary, My Father and Me, has been announced for a UK debut in March. The film explores his relationship with his father, photographer Maurice Broomfield, and will air on BBC Two on 20 March and stream on BBC iPlayer.
For decades among the foremost names in documentary (more recently for Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love, Whitney: Can I Be Me, Tales of the Grim Sleeper), Nick Broomfield has often implicated himself in the filmmaking process with honesty and candor. Yet never has he made a movie more distinctly personal than this complex and moving film about his relationship with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer of vivid, often lustrous images of industrial post-WWII England. These images inspired Nick’s own filmmaking career, but also spoke to a difference in outlook between Maurice and Nick, whose less romantic, more left-wing political identity stemmed from his Jewish mother’s side.
Alongside the family story, My Father and Me also documents the changes taking place in Britain itself, the rise and fall of industry in the North and the class divide.
Rich in striking imagery, My Father and Me is photographed by Nick’s son Barney Broomfield and Sam Mitchell, and is produced by Mark Hoeferlin, Shani Hinton and Kyle Gibbon.
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