LIZZIE FRANCKE

Lizzie Francke is a Senior Production and Development Executive at the BFI’s Film Fund. She was formerly a Development Producer for the UK Film Council’s Development Fund where she oversaw the First Feature programme, which developed projects such as Clio Barnard’s The Arbor and Gillian Wearing’s Self Made.

She started her career as a film critic in the early 1990s contributing to the Guardian, The Observer, Sight and Sound and Screen International amongst others. During this period she also wrote the book Script Girls: The History of Women Screenwriters in Hollywood (1994, BFI Publishing). In 1997 she was appointed Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival and in her five years there, re-established the festival as a key showcase for British cinema.

She moved into production in 2001, first for Little Bird where she co-produced Marc Evans’ thriller Trauma, then as Executive Producer for EM Media where her credits include Control, And When Did You Last See Your Father, Magicians, Donkey Punch, Complete History of My Sexual Failures, Summer, Mum and Dad and Better Things. She also acted as the British co-producer on Vinyan, the second film from the cult Belgian director Fabrice du Welz, which was released in 2009.