Liza Key is presently the director of SCRAWL, the South African Screenwriters Laboratory, an initiative to develop feature film scripts, which is run annually in Cape Town.

In 1987, she directed the first Weekly Mail Film Festival, which was to become the respected Mail & Guardian Film Festival. She also founded the Mail & Guardian Short Film Competition and the Limits of Liberty Festival. In 1997, she formed Key Films and was associate producer on Songs for the Golden City for Channel 4 [UK].

The Furiosus is her first film as a director. We are pleased to welcome Liza Key here as a guest of Pro Helvetia and this (1999) Festival. She will introduce the screening of The Furiosus and answer questions from the audience on Saturday, 26 June 1999 at 6 pm.