Beeban Kidron
| Beeban Kidron | |
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| Born |
2 May 1961 North London, England |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse(s) | Lee Hall (m. 2003) |
Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron, OBE (born 2 May 1961) is 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.
Kidron was born in North London to Nina and Michael Kidron. Michael's family were South African Jews who emigrated to Israel. Michael left Israel to attend Oxford University, where he became a Marxist. He went on to teach economics, and Beeban spent several years living in Yorkshire while he taught at the University of Hull.
She first took up photography when she was given a camera by landscape photographer Fay Godwin during a period when she was unable to speak following a throat operation. Her photographs were spotted by photographer Eve Arnold, whom she worked for at the age of 16 for two years. Aged 20, Kidron enrolled at the prestigious National Film School as a camera woman. At the end of her three years of film school, Kidron switched to directing and stayed on for another year.
In 1983 she made her first documentary Carry Greenham Home with co-director Amanda Richardson. It was filmed during the year that they spent at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp during the anti nuclear protests. The film was shown at the Berlin Film Festival and, to celebrate Greenham's 25th year anniversary, it was revived through The Guardian-backed website, www.yourgreenham.com.
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