Lizelle Bisschoff

Lizelle Bisschoff is a researcher in African film and the founder of the Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival, an annual African film festival taking place in Scotland, founded in 2006 (www.africa-in-motion.org.uk). Lizelle holds a PhD in African cinema from the University of Stirling in Scotland, in which she researched the role of women in African film. She has published widely on sub-Saharan African cinema and regularly attends African film festivals as speaker and jury member. She is currently a Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow.