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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. ==Early life and career== 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.〔 (Obituary for Michael Kidron ), ''The Guardian'', 27 March 2003〕 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 who 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. In 1988 she made her first feature film, Vroom, which starred Clive Owen in his debut film. The following year she came to greater prominence with her adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel ''Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit''. This won 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. 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.〔(Producers will throw MGM 'Bone', Variety, April 15, 1993 ).〕 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''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beeban Kidron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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