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
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.
thinking bigs hard
Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.
country children communication
I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.
people abuse duty
People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
answers film
Make films whenever and however you can - don't take no for an answer.
kings stories hollywood
We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.
technology irony access
The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.
fables parables storyteller
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.