Beeban Kidron
Beeban Kidron
Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron, OBEis an English film director. She has directed an adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Baroness Kidron is the joint founder of the education charity Filmclub, which helps schools with after-school clubs in the United Kingdom...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 May 1961
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In 1982, fellow film student Amanda Richardson and I went to Greenham Common for the day - to see what was going on and to shoot some video. The day turned into a weekend, the weekend into seven months, and the dozens of hours of footage turned into a film - 'Carry Greenham Home.'
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At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
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The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.
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We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.
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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
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If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.
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If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I'm happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example.
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I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
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I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.
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I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.
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I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.
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I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.
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I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.
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I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.