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Beeban Kidron - Film Director

Beeban Kidron - Film Director

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An interview with Beeban Kidron, one of the few really successful women film-makers.

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The 2012 Cannes Film Festival was criticised when all 22 films in
the competition were directed by men.

But Hollywood is not much better - a recent study found that less
than 10 per cent of its directors were women.

So why are there so few women film-makers? Sarah Montague puts
that question to Beeban Kidron, one of the few women to have made
the big time.

She is perhaps best-known for directing the second Bridget Jones
movie, The Edge of Reason.

But most of her other films concern far more radical material: a
documentary about the anti-nuclear women protesters at Greenham
Common, a TV adaptation of the lesbian novel Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit.

Her latest documentary is about India's sacred prostitutes. Is it
women and the choices they make that interests her most?

(Image: Beeban Kidron in 2005. Credit: Ian West / PA Wire)