Liz Fish is an award-winning director and producer who has been in the business for some fifteen years now. Trained at the BBC’s Elstree Studios, she was director of the Community Video Education Trust [CVET] from 1982 to 1989, where she shot, edited and produced over 50 programmes.

She has produced and directed films for South African television, among them Cutting the Cord and Where There Is No Doctor. She also directed and edited Thokoza Video Dialogues for the Africa: Search For Common Ground project.

Currently, she is working at Ubuntu Television as both producer and director on a programme called Youth Network TV. Liz Fish is a guest of Pro Helvetia and this (1999) Festival. She will introduce the screening of her film and answer questions from the audience on Monday, 21 June 1999, at 8.30 pm.