Beeban Kidron

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About Beeban Kidron
Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron, OBE (born 1961) is an English film director known for her much-lauded adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and for directing Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Baroness Kidron is together with Lindsey Mackie the founder of the education charity FILMCLUB, which helps schools with after-school clubs in the United Kingdom, that attract over 160,000 children and young people each week.


Contents


1 Early life and career
2 FILMCLUB
3 Peerage and honour
4 Filmography
5 Awards and nominations
6 External links
7 References


Early life and career[edit]
Kidron was born in North London to Nina and Michael Kidron. Her father Michael was a Marxist economist 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 who she worked for at the age of 16 for two years. Aged 20 Kidron enrolled 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.
In 1988 she made her first feature film Vroom which starred Clive Owen in his debut film. However she really gained notoriety with her 1989 BBC adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. This was a big hit, winning three Baftas including best drama series/serial. Kidron also won an audience award at the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. In 2010 The Guardian named Oranges the eighth best TV series of all time, losing out to HBO's The Sopranos but beating competition including The Wire and The West Wing.
Following the success of Oranges, Kidron continued to work for the BBC, making TV feature film Antonia and Jane, distributed by Miramax in the USA, and a TV film, Itch. In 1992 Kidron moved to Hollywood to make Used People with Shirley MacLaine and Marcello Mastroianni. In 1993, she was hired to direct the feature film Unstrung Heroes, based on the eponymous memoir by Franz Lidz, but dropped out when the studio, Largo, put the film into turnaround. That same year she returned to the UK to pair up with Winterson for the second time for the BBC film Great Moments in Aviation. Later that year she returned to the States to make Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and Their Johns, a hard hitting documentary about the New York sex industry.
In 1994 she made To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, a drag queen road movie starring Wesley Snipes and Patrick Swayze. It was while filming that she had her first child, Noah Kidron-Style, with then-partner Spencer Style. In 1997 she made Amy Foster, (Swept from the Sea) starring Rachel Weisz and Ian McKellen. Her second child, Blaze Kidron-Style, was born in February 1997.
Over the next few years Kidron made a number of TV films both at home and abroad, including Cinderella, Texarkana and Murder, for which she was nominated for a second Bafta. In 2004 she directed in the Bridget Jones series, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant .
In 2007 she made a documentary about neighbor and friend, the sculptor Anthony Gormley. Beeban and her husband, playwright and author of Billy Elliot, Lee Hall, then began work on Hippie Hippie Shake, a film about the OZ magazine trials. The film was shot in 2009 with Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy; however Kidron and Hall left during post production citing artistic differences with the producers.
Kidron spent much of 2010 in Southern India researching and shooting a documentary on the Devadasi. Sex Death and the Gods premiered on BBC 4 as part of the Storyville series. The documentary, which was supported by the charity EveryChild achieved critical success and high ratings while the plight of the Devadasi was widely publicized by the film. Beeban appeared on many shows including BBC World, Woman's Hour and Radio 5 Live. She also wrote articles and was interviewed by The Guardian, the Spectator and theartsdesk.com.
FILMCLUB[edit]
Beeban Kidron started FILMCLUB in September 2006 with Lindsey Makie. FILMCLUB is an educational charity which sets up after-school film clubs in schools in England and Wales. The scheme is free to all state primary and secondary schools. The organisation was founded in September 2006, and after a successful pilot in 2007 launched by then Chancellor Gordon Brown, FILMCLUB officially launched across the country in June 2009.
FILMCLUB gives children from participating schools access to thousands of films and organises school visits by professionals from within the film industry. Pupils are encouraged to watch a diverse range of films including blockbusters, classics, black and white movies and foreign language titles, and to review the films they watch on the organisation's website (www.filmclub.org). The clubs are generally run by teachers or a similar education professional, but may also be led by older pupils, often from a school's 6th Form. The organisation is a charity, and is funded by the Department for Education, with the DVD rental service subsidized by LOVEFiLM.
Kidron was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University in 2010 for her contribution to education. She became a board member of the UK Film Council in 2008 with a mandate to provide film education.
Peerage and honour[edit]
Kidron was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
On 25 June 2012, Kidron was created a life peer as Baroness Kidron, of Angel in the London Borough of Islington, and was introduced in the House of Lords the following day. She was appointed on the recommendation of the House of Lords Appointments Commission and sits as a Crossbencher (independent).
Filmography[edit]


Directed
Year
Production Company


Sex Death and the Gods
2011
BBC, Cross Street Films


Hippie Hippie Shake
2010
Universal, Working Title


Anthony Gormley: Making Space
2007
C4, Cross Street Films


Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
Universal, Working Title


Murder
2002
BBC


Cinderella
2000
C4


Texarkana
1998
Sacret, NBC


Amy Foster, Swept from the Sea
1997
Sony, Tapson Steel


Eve Arnold in Retrospect
1996
BBC, Omnibus


To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
1995
Universal, Amblin


Great Moments in Aviation
1993
BBC, Mirimax


Hookers Hustlers Pimps and Their Johns
1993
C4, Wonderland


Used People
1992
20th Century Fox, Largo


Itch
1991
C4, Chrysalis


Antonia and Jane
1990
BBC, Mirimax


Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1989
BBC, A&E


Vroom
1988
Film 4


Global Gamble
1985
Diverse, C4


Alex
1985
NFTS


Carry Greenham Home
1983
Contemporary Films, C4




Produced
Date


Sex Death and the Gods
2011


Antony Gormley: Making Space
2007


Amy Foster, Swept from the Sea
1997


Eve Arnold in Retrospect
1996




Cinematographer
Date


Carry Greenham Home
1983


Sex Death and the Gods
2011




Editor
Date


Carry Greenham Home
1983




Thanks
Date


An Education
2009


Awards and nominations[edit]


Film
Result
Award
Category


Alex
Won
Lillian Gish Award 1983
Best Writer/Director


Carry Greenham Home
Won
Chicago International Film Awards
Golden Hugo


Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Won
BAFTA
Best Drama


Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Won
San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Best Feature


Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Won
GLAAD
Outstanding TV movie


Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Won
Cannes Film Festival
FIPA D'argent


Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Won
Prix Italia
Special Prize for fiction


Too Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar
Nominated
GLAAD
Outstanding Film


Murder
Nominated
BAFTA
Best Drama


Used People
Nomination
Golden Globes
Marcello Mastroianni and Shirley MacLaine Best Actor/Actress


Murder
Nominated
BAFTA
Best Drama


Murder
Nominated
Emmy
Best TV Movie


Bridget Jones, on the Edge of Reason
Won
Evening Standard Readers
Film of 2004


Bridget Jones, on the Edge of Reason
Nominated
Peoples Choice Award
Best Comedy


Bridget Jones, on the Edge of Reason
Nominated
Peoples Choice Award
Best Sequel


Bridget Jones, on the Edge of Reason
Nominated
Empire Award
Best British Film


Hookers Hustlers Pimps and their Johns
Won
Erotic Awards
Most Erotic British TV Show


NA
Won
Wifta
Creative Originality Award 2010


NA
Won
Glamour
Woman of the Year 2005




Thanks
Date


An Education
2009


External links[edit]

Beeban Kidron at the Internet Movie Database
FILMCLUB
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xyzjy
http://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=2927:interview-film-director-beeban-kidron&Itemid=7
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/21/beeban-kidron-devadasi
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/aug/01/beeban-kidron-miracle-in-milan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/jan/12/guardian-50-television-dramas
http://www.yourgreenham.co.uk/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098032/
http://www.nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk/index.php?module=People&type=Alumni&people_id=36&back=course&course_id=149
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/14/filmclub-international-news-schools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB57bQ8R37s
http://wn.com/Beeban_Kidron
http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm213.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-eve-arnold-and-beeban-kidron-1346997.html

References[edit]


^ Hawcock, Neville (January 14, 2011). "Beeban Kidron talks about her career". Financial Times. 
^ Producers will throw MGM 'Bone', Variety, April 15, 1993.
^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60173. p. 10. 16 June 2012.
^ "Kenneth Branagh knighted in Queen's Birthday Honours". BBC News. 15 June 2012. Retrieved 5 July2012. 
^ House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings for Tuesday 26 June 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.







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