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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During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.
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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?
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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.
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In the U.S., it would be so much better if the studios made many more smaller films for niche markets rather than a few tent pole films that swamp cinemas and Hoover up all the funding.