Liz Chege

Liz Chege is a curator, critic and researcher based in Glasgow and Nairobi. In 2022, she was honoured to be invited as a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow and BAFTA Scotland member. She is a founding (...) member of Come the Revolution, a collective of creatives committed to exploring Black life and cultural expression through cinema. She was programme producer of British Council’s “No Direct Flight” at the British Film Institute, a cross-media exploration of global African diaspora moving-image makers; and is currently Lead Programmer for Leeds International Film Festival’s Oscar®-qualifying Louis le Prince International Competition as well as co-founder of Glasgow Film Festival’s Black Filmmakers Community Network. She has served on international film festival juries including the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, the Grierson Awards, the 'Diversity in Cannes' programme, and the One World Media Awards. In her years as a marketing specialist, she created bespoke campaigns for special and grassroots audiences. She focused on independent films about disenfranchised communities living on the margins, such as BAFTA-winning "Bait" (2019) about the Cornish community and Cannes award-winning "The Ciambra" (2018) about the oppressed Romani community in Calabria, Italy. Her background in architecture and town planning gives her a unique understanding of our bodily response to artistic expression. Most recently, she joined as a James McCune Smith scholar at the University of Glasgow.