Unlike the making of a feature film, where the shooting can be completed in a relatively short period, filming of "Downton Abbey" goes on for six months.

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But he is soon to start shooting a new feature film, his first since 1992.

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Newly enamored of the country since producing documentary "Albino United" --- about an albino football team in Tanzania -- in 2010, Broomfield is shooting his next feature film in the city of Mwanza on the shore of Lake Victoria in the north-west of the country.

CNN: Nick Broomfield: Tanzania is the next movie hotspot

Mr Watson decided to hone his film-making by shooting a low budget fictional feature with help from other British staff, which included marine biologists, geologists and mechanics.

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