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
discovered enjoyed life
I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
believe life public
I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.
life online
I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same.
life love
I love being in real life, and in particular, I like being with young people.
changed comment life remarkable
The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.
age life lucky mentor women wonderful
Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.
demand funds paying work
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.
information kids time
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.
history record
If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.
billion next safer seven six spend twitter
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.
street
I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.
amazing love
I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.
nature
I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.
either hope people terms vindicated
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.