2. ABOUT BROOMFIELD
โข Born 30th January 1948
โข English documentary filmmaker
โข Son of Maurice Broomfield ( a photographer)
โข Studied law at Cardiff University, political
science at University of Essex and film at
National film and television school
โข Famous for self-reflexive style
โข Works with minimal crew, recording himself
using one or two camera operators
3. AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
โข British Academy Award (BAFTA)
โข Prix Italia
โข The Dupont Columbia Award for Outstanding Journalism
โข The Peabody
โข The Royal Television Society Award
โข First Prize, Sundance Film Festival
โข John Grierson Award
โข Robert Flaherty Award
โข The Hague Peace Prize
โข The Chris Award
โข The Blue Ribbon
โข The California State Bar Award
โข First Prize, Chicago Film Festival
โข First Prize, US Film Festival
โข First Prize, Festival of Mannheim
โข First Prize, Festival di Popoli
โข Special Jury Award, Melbourne Film Festival
โข Broomfield was also given a BAFTA tribute evening on 8 March 2005
4. POPULAR DOCUMENTARY FILMS
โข Broomfield has made up to 27 film
documentaries
โข Kurt and Courtney 1998
โข Battle for Hadithe 2007
โข Aileen: Life and Death of a serial killer 2003
โข Biggie and Tupac 2002
โข Ghosts 2006
โข A time comes 2009
5. DOCUMENTARY STYLE
โข Broomfield is best known for his reflexive film
making style, which is the film being about
the making of itself as well as the subject
โข Broomfieldโs films include a broad range of
subject matters from high profile, including
Margaret Thatcher to the tabloid incluing
Tupac. Broomfield has even made two full-length
documentaries about the life and
death of notorious American serial killer,
Aileen Wuornos.
6. โBIGGIE AND TUPACโ FILM
โข This is the trailer for the documentary film
โBiggie & Tupacโ a 2002 feature-length
documentary film about Biggie Smalls
and Tupac Shakur, made by Nick
Broomfield. It is an investigation of the
deaths of the two (which occurred within
six months of each other), which some
people claim were orchestrated by Suge
Knight, head of Death Row Records.
Watch the trailer of Broomfield's film
documentary
