Mike Dibb, born on April 29, 1940, in Wharfedale, Bradford, West Yorkshire, is a renowned English documentary filmmaker. With a career spanning nearly five decades, he has primarily focused on creating films for television, exploring a wide range of subjects such as cinema, literature, art, jazz, sport, and popular culture.
Throughout his extensive career, Dibb has not only helped define and redefine the televisual art documentary genre but has also successfully utilized the medium as a form of self-portraiture. He has directed numerous acclaimed films, featuring notable subjects such as Federico García Lorca, C. L. R. James, Astor Piazzolla, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Barbara Thompson, and many others.
As Sukhdev Sandhu aptly noted in The Guardian, "In a career spanning almost five decades, it's possible Dibb has shaped more ideas and offered more ways of seeing than any other TV documentarian of his generation."
