Lizzie Thynne

Lizzie Thynne has worked in the Department of Media and Film since 2001 after joining Sussex from UEL. Her entry into film was as Education Officer at the Tyneside Cinema in 1988-89 where she devised courses and events around the cinema programme, including for the first UK Lesbian and Gay Film festival. After studying study film and television production as a post-grad at Bristol (1990 - 91), she worked on both factual and drama projects for Channel Four and ITV. She began making her own films, which focussed on how personal narratives are connected to wider political, social and legal changes, for Channel Four's ground-breaking series, Out on Tuesday and Out. She has since exhibited her work in both cinema and gallery contexts, including the National Film Theatre, the Musuem of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Jerusalem Film Festival, the Irish Film Centre, the Lieksa Museum, Finland, Festival International de Films de Femmes, Creteil.