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
history record
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 liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.
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I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
difficult exploring interested subjects
I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.
people
I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.
believe life public
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.
nature
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.
everybody thinks
I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.
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.
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I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.