To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

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. Kidron was born in North London in 1961 to parents Nina and Michael Kidron. Her father Michael was a Marxist economist and Beeban spent several years living in Yorkshire whilst 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.
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