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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.
Beeban Kidron is a British film director and peer in the House of Lords who has spent her career bridging narrative cinema with social activism.
She is known for directing the romantic comedy Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and the television adaptation of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, as well as her founding of the Into Film charity.
Her work spans diverse formats including television drama, romantic comedy features, and issue-led documentaries focusing on social and personal rights.