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Beeban Kidron
English
Director
Born:
May 2
,
1961
Internet
Life
People
Think
Women
You
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The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.
Beeban Kidron
You
Out
About
Come
Documentary
Bed
Subjects
Grab
Really
Your
Choose
Thing
Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.
Beeban Kidron
People
Blessed
Half
Goddess
Visit
Small
Small Town
Town
Hindu
Fertility
Festival
January
Each
Nearly
Million
Million People
The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.
Beeban Kidron
Injustice
Women
Poverty
Rule
Outcome
India
Impact
Absolutely
Imperialism
Happened
Story
Which
Central
Against
Them
Deprivation
British
People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
Beeban Kidron
People
Duty
Systems
Abuse
Understand
Witnessed
Then
Lives
Coexist
Right
I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
Beeban Kidron
Positive
Great
School
Internet
Thought
Could
Come
Force
Getting
Move
Rid
Who
Gatekeepers
The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.
Beeban Kidron
Freedom
People
Political
Internet
Free
Free Speech
Sides
Astonishing
Say
Find
Come
Model
Thing
Speech
When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.
Beeban Kidron
Me
Crazy
Internet
Parents
Politicians
Say
Kids
Supervise
Drives
Oh
Should
Use
We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.
Beeban Kidron
King
Increasingly
Offered
Diet
Sensation
Story
Which
I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.
Beeban Kidron
Life
Service
My Life
Believe
Think
Been
Very
Public
Lucky
Public Service
Make films whenever and however you can - don't take no for an answer.
Beeban Kidron
You
Films
Take
Make
Answer
However
Whenever
We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.
Beeban Kidron
Work
Difficult
Increasingly
Out
More
More And More
Demand
Material
Get
Work Out
Production
Paying
Who
Film
Funds
Need
My children know not to shout before Mummy has warmed herself into something human with her coffee.
Beeban Kidron
Coffee
Before
Herself
Something
Know
Human
Children
Shout
Mummy
Her
During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.
Beeban Kidron
Difficult
Worlds
Teens
About
Mysterious
Read
Were
Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.
Beeban Kidron
People
Phone
London
Angeles
Pick
Los
Los Angeles
Arrive
Up
Offices
Unfortunately
The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.
Beeban Kidron
Generation
Men
Way
Jobs
My Generation
Previous
Gallop
Paved
Reserved
If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.
Beeban Kidron
History
Will
Own
Our
Record
Net
Disappear
For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
Beeban Kidron
Peace
Women
Song
Sometimes
Police
Community
Live
Humiliated
Cold
Constant
Determined
More
Purpose
Shared
Almost
Joyful
Police Force
Most
Force
Principle
Terrifying
Always
Got
Mounting
Often
Place
Frustrated
Harder
Growth
Violence
The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.
Beeban Kidron
Website
Every
Our
Adds
Kids
Possible
Response
Visual
Intrusion
Layer
Factory
New
Devices
Message
Another
Audio
Shipped
Get
Vibration
Creates
Use
App
Cynically
Tweet
Each
Appetite
Switched
Designed
Alert
Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?
Beeban Kidron
Day
Mistake
Every
Consequences
Virtual
Teenager
Relationships
Our
Everything
Says
One Day
Would
Folly
Self
Counterpart
Looks
Does
How
Intact
However
Public
Transgression
Might
Transitory
Reputations
Us
Held
View
Youthful
Many
Keep
Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
Beeban Kidron
Made
Bicycle
Thieves
Everybody
Knows
His
Film
We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.
Beeban Kidron
Legal
Own
Situation
Intimate
Details
Develop
Allowed
Industry
Dollar
Perpetuity
Personal
Children
Which
Wholly
I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.
Beeban Kidron
Love
Amazing
Think
Email
Text
Skype
I'm in the communications business.
Beeban Kidron
Business
Communications
I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.
Beeban Kidron
Out
Go
Camera
Questions
Often
Ask
Street
There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.
Beeban Kidron
Good
Facebook
Quality
Nothing
Tool
Relationships
Except
Wrong
Itself
Very
Your
Express
I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.
Beeban Kidron
Nature
World
Like
Real
Accidental
Being
The Real World
Real World
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