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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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.
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.
worlds
During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.
great people
I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated.
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Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.
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Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?
life love
I love being in real life, and in particular, I like being with young people.
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Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.
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Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.