Summary: The Cannes Film Festival was criticised this year 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% of its directors were women. Sarah Montague talks to Beeban Kidron, one of the few to have made the big time. She directed 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’ and her latest documentary about India’s “sacred” prostitutes. Is it women and the choices they make that interest her the most?
