The latest news and comment on director Beeban Kidron
August 2022
The Batgirl you’ll never see: why some films disappear for ever
She cost a cool $90m but the comic book heroine won’t even be streamed. Why do some productions deserve such an extreme fate?
September 2021
Beeban Kidron v Silicon Valley: one woman’s fight to protect children online
The film-maker and life peer has been warning of the digital dangers facing young people since 2012. Now, with her Children’s Code, people – and big tech companies - are starting to listen
December 2015
Guardian Live
Does the online world define our identity? - Guardian Live event
Generations are now growing up with technology at their fingertips. At a Guardian Live event in London, journalist Emily Maitlis asked a panel how tech affects the way we record experiences, build relationships, and perceive our own identities
August 2015
Me and you
Director Beeban Kidron and writer/actor Sarah Solemani on their strong professional friendship
The script Sarah Solemani sent Beeban Kidron made her laugh out loud. Now they are close friends and talk about everything – and they argue about quite a few things, too
January 2014
The internet revolution versus the House of Lords
Henry Porter
Henry Porter: The peers' debate about the internet revealed how little they understand of the way the web has infiltrated our minds
November 2013
Greenslade
100 leading figures urge newspaper publishers to accept royal charter
Don Jon – review | Mark Kermode
September 2013
InRealLife – review
Beeban Kidron's documentary about the internet is entertaining and enlightening, but when it comes to teen users, the tone veers towards moral panic, writes Peter Bradshaw
We have abandoned our children to the internet
Beeban Kidron
Beeban Kidron: Young people are addicted to a virtual world that is designed to keep them hooked with little care for collateral damage
Greenham locking the base – video
Greenham blockading the base – video
Greenham peace camp: Bringing the fence down – video
August 2013
Trailer park
InRealLife: watch the exclusive trailer for a documentary about teens and the internet - video
Watch the trailer for InRealLife, a new documentary exploring the ways in which the internet is changing childhood
Interview with filmmaker Beeban Kidron, plus exclusive clips from her new film about India's devadasi
Beeban Kidron on the devadasi system
The film-maker is outraged by the practice, but says that 'evil mothers' are not to blame
'Devadasis are a cursed community'
Southern India's devadasi system, which 'dedicates' girls to a life of sex work in the name of religion, continues despite being made illegal in 1988
August 2010
The film that changed my life
The film that changed my life: Beeban Kidron
The director talks to Tom Lamont about Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan
May 2006
Greenham reprise
Letters: I well remember Beeban and Amanda with their cameras, so it was great to see Beeban Kidron's article on Greenham (All our roads led there, G2, May 5). But it's a bit early for nostalgia. With the government planning a £25bn successor to Trident, the job we started in 1981 is not yet over.
September 2005
My hero
Film-maker Beeban Kidron on photographer Eve Arnold.
October 2004
Me and Ms Jones
What does Beeban Kidron, a director with impeccable feminist credentials and a record in gritty documentaries, think she's doing making a Bridget Jones sequel? Having a laugh, that's what. Better, she tells Zoe Williams - emphatically, as is her way - to be a bit radical for a big audience than terribly, terribly right-on for a handful.
Guardian LiveDoes the online world define our identity? - Guardian Live eventGenerations are now growing up with technology at their fingertips. At a Guardian Live event in London, journalist Emily Maitlis asked a panel how tech affects the way we record experiences, build relationships, and perceive our own identities
