To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
1995
Search results
Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron, OBE (born 2 May 1961), [citation needed] is a British politician. She is an advocate for children's rights in the digital world [1] and has played a role in establishing standards for online safety and privacy across the world.
Beeban Kidron. She came to prominence with the much lauded adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'. Since then she's directed feature films, television dramas and documentaries. In 2008, she founded the charity called Filmclub with Lindsay Mackie.
She is an advisor to the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford, a Commissioner on the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, an expert advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, and Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation.
Beeban Kidron. Director: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. She came to prominence with the much lauded adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'. Since then she's directed feature films, television dramas and documentaries.
Baroness Kidron is a leading voice on children's rights in the digital environment and a global authority on digital regulation and accountability. She has played a determinative role in establishing standards for online safety and privacy across the world.
Movies have the power to create a shared narrative experience and to shape memories and worldviews. British film director Beeban Kidron invokes iconic film scenes -- from Miracle in Milan to Boyz n the Hood -- as she shows how her group FILMCLUB shares great films with kids.
Beeban Kidron is a British filmmaker who successfully navigates between pop culture and society’s darkest underworlds. Kidron is best known for directing Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and the Bafta-winning miniseries Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989), adapted from Jeannette Winterson’s novel of the same name.
Before taking up her seat in the House of Lords in 2012, Baroness Kidron spent 30 years as an award-winning film maker. After a childhood illness left her unable to speak, at the age of eleven, Kidron was given a camera by photographer Fay Godwin .
Kidron’s Ted Talk, The Shared Wonder of Film, viewed over a million times, describes film’s power to activate children’s curiosity and critical thinking, to illustrate the shared experience of being human, and to create communality across divides.
- www.raisingfilms.com
- › Interview
Beeban Kidron, Baroness Kidron, OBE, is a filmmaker, activist and campaigner. Her early films, Carry Greenham Home and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit , are key texts of British and feminist cinema.
