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‘What do I wish I had known earlier? How important it is to say no sometimes’ – Alison Millar

Documentary film-maker Alison Millar on the importance of family and how she regrets not taking more holidays

Alison Millar, Bafta award-winning director: ‘I have spent 25 years working in documentary making, allowing people to tell their stories’

Bafta award-winning documentary maker Alison Millar is interested in people. “I always loved spending time with people and telling stories, and having the camera was an extension of that curiosity,” she says. “I have spent 25 years working in documentary making, allowing people to tell their stories.”

The Northern Irish director has previously focused her lens on a priest with a secret life, the search for the resting place of stolen racehorse Shergar, and the ...