Mark Kidel
Mark Kidel is an award-winning filmmaker and writer specializing in the arts and music, working since the early 1970’s in the UK and France (BBC, Channel 4, United, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, ARTE etc.). He made a number of classic feature-length documentaries about rock music (among them “So You Wanna Be a Rock’n’Roll Star”, 1975), and co-founded the ground-breaking BBC-2 arts series Arena in the mid-70’s. In 1982, Mark Kidel collaborated with Peter Gabriel on the conception of a world music festival, which grew into the world-famous WOMAD festivals.
Since 1989, he has been based in Bristol, where he lives with his wife and occasional collaborator Susan Rowe-Leete and their two children.