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Holloway Hairdo is nominated for an RTS Award

In the shadow of the bigger and glitzier Oscars, the RTS programme award nominations were announced on Friday. Up for an award in the category of
Nations & Regions Programme is Holloway Hairdo, directed by Kate Taunton and produced by DFG Films.

The programme was produced for the Reel London series, for ITV London in association with Film London. The series is a initiative for emergent documentary filmmakers, offering filmmakers an opportunity to produce diverse and distinctive films using the documentary medium in new and innovative ways. Other films in the series last year were Jes Benstock's The Man with the Extended Mind, and Ben Roy's A Song for London.

Holloway Hairdo pays a visit to the beauty salon at Holloway Prison, the all-female prison in north London. The inmates gather to be pampered and to gossip, under the kindly authority of Brenda, the manager. Following its screening at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival in November, the programme was aired on ITV London late last year.

The RTS Programme Awards for 2006 will be presented Tuesday 13 March 2007 at the Grosvenor House Hotel.

Other factual nominees are:

Nations & Regions Programme
Holloway Hairdo DFG Films for ITV London in association with Film London
Iceman - Inside Out BBC Yorkshire
Life's Too Short Tern Television for BBC One Scotland

Documentary Series - General
Anatomy Of A Crime BBC for BBC One
Stephen Fry - The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive IWC for BBC Two
The Cult Of The Suicide Bomber A Many Rivers Production for Channel 4

Single Documentary - General
The Falling Man A Darlow Smithson Production for Channel 4
True Stories: Sisters In Law A Vixen Film for More4
Rain In My Heart BBC Documentaries for BBC Two

Science & Natural History
Horizon: Bye Bye Planet Pluto BBC for BBC Two
How William Shatner Changed The World Mentorn for five
Planet Earth: From Pole To Pole BBC, JVP, NHK & BBC Worldwide for BBC One

History
Nuremberg: Nazis On Trial BBC for BBC Two
The War Of The World Blakeway Productions for Channel 4
Who Do You Think You Are? Wall to Wall for BBC Two  

Features & Factual Entertainment
Dragons' Den BBC for BBC Two
The Apprentice talkbackTHAMES/Mark Burnett Productions for BBC Two
The Real Hustle Objective Productions for BBC Three

Related Pages

DFG Films website
Holloway Hairdo in the DFGdocs/Directory

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