UK

David Hinton is a director who has made many documentaries for British television. His subjects have included artists of all kinds, including painter Francis Bacon, filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, writer Alan Bennett, and choreographer Karole Armitage. He has also made films about Dostoyevsky, rock and roll, visual comedy, and the Cultural Revolution in China. He is best known in the dance world for Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men and Strange Fish, his film versions of stage shows by DV8 Physical Theatre. He has also made performance films with Adventures in Motion Pictures, the Alvin Ailey Company and the Royal Swedish Ballet, and he has collaborated with several choreographers to create original dance works for the screen. He has twice won British Academy awards for his documentaries, and his dance films have won many awards, including a Prix Italia, an Emmy, and the IMZ Dance Screen Award. In 2008 he co-directed the film Nora (with Alla Kovgan), based on childhood memories of the self-exiled Zimbabwean dancer Nora Chipaumire.

Filmography

The South Bank Show (1985 - 1988)
Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
Francis Bacon (1988)
Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men (1989)
Funny Business (1992)
Strange Fish (1993)
Children of the Revolution (1995)
Nora (2008)
All This Can Happen (2013)