Beeban Kidron

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Beeban Kidron 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. In 2008 with Lindsey Mackie she founded the charity Filmclub, which has since grown to be one of the largest and most influential after-school clubs in the UK, attracting over 160,000 children and young people each week. Description above from the Wikipedia article Beeban Kidron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

InRealLife

InRealLife takes us on a journey from the bedrooms of British teenagers to the world of Silicon Valley, to find out what exactly the internet is doing to our children.

Release Date2013-09-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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Vote Count10

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics.

Release Date2022-09-04

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Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Scala!!!

This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.

Release Date2024-01-05

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Vote Count9

Scala Interviews

An hour of interviews about the iconic British cinema.

Release Date2024-01-05

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Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and Their Johns

British filmmaker Beeban Kidron ventures onto the mean streets of the South Bronx and other New York locales to examine the lives of those involved in the city's thriving sex industry.

Release Date1993-12-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count7

Storyville

Showcasing the best in international documentaries, Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago. Screening over 340 films, from some 70 different countries, the strand has garnered a staggering array of awards: five Oscars, 15 Griersons, three Peabodys and two International Emmys. In true, unique, Storyville style, the new series promises to deliver the strand's usual eclectic mix of compelling stories from across the globe.

Release Date1997-11-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

Used People

At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl.

Release Date1992-12-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count36

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time Mark spends with a gorgeous co-worker Rebecca and, despite a vacation meant to smooth things over, ends their relationship. On assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver - claiming to be a reformed man - they have a short dalliance, and she is arrested at the airport and temporarily jailed on the false accusation of drug smuggling before Mark, seemingly indifferent, comes to the rescue.

Release Date2004-11-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2948

Cinderella

Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette, Cinderella must keep her new step-mother from murdering the only family she has left. Add in an anti-social mermaid literally living in a cave, a bored prince with an ear for rock n' roll, and the glamour of the 1950's and one'll find that this story can't grow old.

Release Date2000-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count24

Murder

Julie Walters stars as a mother dealing with the impact of the sudden murder of her 21 year old son. Each episode follows her story and also focuses on specific characters whose lives are transformed by the event – the journalist who is covering the story; the Indian newsagent who used to sell the victim his fags; and the passerby who happened across his body.

Release Date2002-05-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count3

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.

Release Date1995-09-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count719

Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.

Release Date1990-01-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count26

Antonia and Jane

Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?

Release Date1990-07-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Antony Gormley: Making Space

Intimate documentary following acclaimed sculptor Antony Gormley as he creates new work for a major exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery. Made by filmmaker and close friend Beeban Kidron, the film reveals how Gormley produces his art, exploring the forces that compel him to devise ever more monumental and ambitious work,

Release Date2007-05-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Sex, Death and the Gods

An intimate journey into the twilight world of the devadasi, Hindus who are married to god in childhood and at puberty sold for sex. The girls of Karnataka, southern India who are forced to live in this ancient tradition despite it having been declared illegal for more than 60 years.

Release Date2011-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Your Greenham

Your Greenham, produced and Directed by Beeban Kidron, is a documentary to commemorate and preserve the history of the Greenham protest.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Carry Greenham Home

Activists take action to disrupt activities at an air force base after cruise missiles are stored at the facility.

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2