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Liani Maasdorp
University of Cape Town Senior Lecturer
Rondebosch
Liani is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town and holds a doctoral degree in film studies. She convenes the Master of Documentary Arts degree programme, is the academic director of the Stepping Stone community engagement video training programme and the founder of the ScreenCubator talent developer. She is one of the producers of the documentary film Strike a Rock, which opened Encounters and was screened at IDFA in 2017. She’s passionate about documentary film impact producing and has hosted several panels, workshops and events on the topic at festivals and conferences, including Encounters South African International Film Festival (2018, 2019, 2020), Durban FilmMart (2020), and Africa Film for Impact Festival (2020).