[3] She is an advisor to the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University,[4] a commissioner on the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development,[5] and founder and chair of 5Rights Foundation.
Her parents were the founders and proprietors of the independent publishing house Pluto Press, which started life from the laundry room of their family home.
She first took up photography when she was given a camera by landscape photographer Fay Godwin during a period when she was unable to speak following a throat operation.
Following the success of Oranges, Kidron continued to work for the BBC, making the TV feature film Antonia and Jane, distributed by Miramax in the US, as well as Itch, starring and co-written by Alexei Sayle for Channel 4's 4 Play anthology series.
The following year, she directed Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and Their Johns, a documentary about the New York City sex industry.
She then returned to the UK to pair up with Winterson for the BBC film Great Moments in Aviation starring Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce, which was subsequently renamed Shades of Fear by Miramax CEO Harvey Weinstein.
[11] The 1990s and early 2000s saw Kidron move between Hollywood, New York and London, making features, TV programmes and documentaries.
1997 brought Swept from the Sea, a romantic adaptation of the Joseph Conrad story "Amy Foster", starring Rachel Weisz and Vincent Perez, which Variety called "masterfully crafted and heartfelt".
[12] Over the next few years, Kidron made a number of TV films both at home and abroad, including Cinderella, Texarkana and Murder, for which she was nominated for a second Bafta.
The film was shot in 2009 with Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy; however, Kidron and Hall left during post-production, citing artistic differences with the producers.
[15] Following a period away from feature films, Kidron produced the Stephen Frears-directed Victoria & Abdul, which was released in 2017.
The clubs are generally run by teachers or a similar education professional, but may also be led by older pupils, often from a school's Sixth Form.
[18] Kidron was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
At the launch she described it as a civil society initiative that aims to make the digital world a more transparent and empowering place for children and young people.
[33] It develops policy, regulation and innovative approaches to digital issues on behalf of children and young people, working with an interdisciplinary network of experts.
5Rights has pioneered a range of international policies and programmes, such as; developing Child Online Protection Policy for the Government of Rwanda;[34] contributing to the creation of a General Comment (codicil) on the digital world,[35] to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC);[36] and working in partnership with IEEE Standards to create Universal Standards for Children and for Digital Services and Products.
When a draft Age Appropriate Design Code was put forward by the Information Commissioner in January 2020, Baroness Kidron stated “Children and their parents have long been left with all of the responsibility but no control.
In June 2020, the UK Government laid the Code before parliament making it the first piece of legislation of its kind and in doing so establishing that data protection is a powerful tool for delivering a better experience for children online.