Lizzie Francke

After graduating from University of East Anglia, Lizzie Francke began her career working as programmer for the Everyman Cinema and Electric Pictures. There she was involved in the re-release of La Dolce Vita, American Friend, Breathless, The Big Heat and In a Lonely Place among many others. At Electric Pictures she was also involved in the launching of the debut films of both Claire Denis (Chocolat) and Jane Campion (Sweetie).

Subsequently she enjoyed a career as a critic writing on film for a variety of publications from Sight & Sound through to Premiere, The Observer and The Guardian as well as contributing to radio. In 1994, the bfi published Script Girls, Women Screenwriters in Hollywood.

From 1997 - 2001, she was Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Subsequently she set up the Ministry of Fear label for the production company Little Bird, where she was co-producer on Trauma (Marc Evans, 2004). From 2005-07 she was executive producer for the regional film fund EM Media. She is currently working as a development producer for the UKFC's development fund.