Beeban Kidron

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Beeban Kidron

Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron OBE (born May 2, 1961 in London ) is a British film director and film producer who was raised to the nobility in 2012 as a Life Peeress and is therefore a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Beeban Kidron was born in North London and is the daughter of the Marxist economist Michael Kidron , who taught at the University of Hull , and his wife Nina. Michael's family were South African Jews who immigrated to Israel. Michael left Israel to attend Oxford University, where he became a Marxist .

In 1981 she studied film camera at the renowned National Film and Television School (NFTS), where she last studied directing between 1983 and 1984 . In 1983 she shot Carry Greenham Home with Amanda Richardson at the NFTS, her first film.

Kidron and her former partner Spencer Style have two children together, son Noah (born 1994) and daughter Blaze (born 1997). She married the playwright Lee Hall in 2003.

Career

She had her first major success in 1989 with the miniseries Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, based on the lesbian novel of the same name by Jeanette Winterson . For this film, together with Jeanette Winterson and Phillippa Giles, she won the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Film Award) for best series in 1991 , the Silver FIFA at the International Festival for Audiovisual Programs in Biarritz and the Audience Award at the International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in San Francisco .

In the period that followed, other well-known films were made such as Die Herbstzeitlosen (1992), Wonderful Moments of Aviation (1993), To Wong Foo , a film with a homosexual content that deals in particular with the transgender topic, Amy Foster - In the Sea of ​​Emotions ( 1997) and Bridget Jones - On the Edge of Wahnsinns (2004). In addition to directing, she also works as a film producer and screenplay writer .

For the 2002 television film Murder , she was nominated again for a BAFTA Film Award together with Rebecca De Souza and Abi Morgan in 2003.

On June 25, 2012, Beeban Kidron was raised to the nobility as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Kidron , of Angel in the London Borough of Islington , and is thus a member of the House of Lords . Baroness Kidron belongs to the group of so-called Crossbenchers , the non-party members of the House of Lords.

Movie club

In 2008 she and Lindsay Mackie founded the charity Filmclub , which has grown to become one of the largest and most influential aid organizations for students and schools in Great Britain, and which is visited by over 150,000 children and youth every week. The "film club", which exists in numerous schools in Great Britain, shows its young members international films and aims to be inspiring and entertaining while at the same time strengthening literacy, social behavior and cultural awareness. Film club members have the opportunity to discuss the films shown in schools and meet professional filmmakers.

Kidron was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University in 2010 for her contribution to education . In 2008 she became a board member of the UK Film Council with a mandate to provide film training.

In 2013, the film club merged with the First Light charity to create Into Film . Into Film not only maintains film clubs in schools, but also organizes a youth film festival and youth film awards.

Filmography

Awards

  • 1990: Audience Award at the International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (San Francisco)
  • 1991: BAFTA Film Award
  • 1991: Silver FIFA at the International Festival of Audiovisual Programs (Biarritz)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guardian Staff: Obituary: Michael Kidron . In: The Guardian . March 27, 2003, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed May 23, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Monitor. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Gordon Barr: Bridget's boys. October 14, 2003, accessed May 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Movie stars speak out on the importance of film education and what led them into the industry. September 29, 2015, accessed May 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kidron, Beeban
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kidron, Beeban Tania, Baroness Kidron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH London