About Us
Africa in Motion is a largely volunteer-run festival, founded in 2006 by Lizelle Bisschoff and Melissa Trachtenberg.
The main aims of the festival have been, since its inception, to introduce Scottish audiences to the brilliance of African cinema and to overcome the under-representation and marginalisation of African film in British film-going culture. We believe that the best way to learn about Africa is to listen to African voices and to view representations created by African themselves, as these often counter the stereotypical representations we see from Africa in mainstream media in the West. But our main reason for screening the films is because we believe they are great films which should be seen the world over.
Africa in Motion 2009 is co-directed by Lizelle Bisschoff and Stefanie Van de Peer, both researchers in African cinema.
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Festival directors
Lizelle Bisschoff: AiM founder and director
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Stefanie Van de Peer: co-director
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Staff
Alastair Cole: Rural Highlands and Islands Tour
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Gillian Cook: Press Officer
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Kirsty Dickson: Press & Marketing Officer
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Louise Emslie: opening night event
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Laura McCaffrey: symposium organisation
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Katie Miller: Press Officer
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Clare Rossouw: film selection, partnership development
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Kari Ann Shiff: film selection and guest hospitality
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Victoria Thomas: film selection, audience development, filmmaking
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Jen Wood: co-ordination opening night event
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AiM Board of Advisors
Mark Cousins – Film critic, writer and producer
Andrew Lawrence – Lecturer in African Politics at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh
Noe Mendelle – Head of Film and TV at the Edinburgh College of Art and Director of the Scottish Documentary Institute
David Murphy – Senior lecturer at the University of Stirling and a leading scholar on African film
Paul Nugent – Professor of Comparative African History and Director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh