Nick Broomfield, the documentary filmmaker who made Kurt & Courtney and Biggie and Tupac, will be giving a free 3-hour masterclass on 7 March 2008, 2.30-5.30pm at the Edinburgh College of Art Main Lecture Theatre.
The event, which is being organised by the Scottish Documentary Institute, will be followed at 6pm by a screening of Broomfield's fictionalised recreation of events leading to a real-life US atrocity in Iraq, Battle for Haditha at Edinburgh Filmhouse. Broomfield will be attending for a post-screening Q&A.
Broomfield's trademark style where he puts himself in the picture with headphones and microphone, interviewing with deadpan manner, was developed while making Driving me Crazy in 1988, after the company that hired him to make a documentary reneged on their promises.
His success has also been down to his dogged and often candid coverage of some of the most controversial public figures of recent times including Eugene Terre'Blanche, Maggie Thatcher, Aileen Wuornos, Heidi Fleiss, Courteney Love in Kurt & Courtney, and Biggie and Tupac.
Broomfield will be discussing and showing clips from a range of his films from Battle for Haditha to his documentary Fetishes.
The Masterclass is on 7 March 2008, 2.30-5.30pm at the Edinburgh College of Art Main Lecture Theatre. For free entrances RSVP to [email protected]