Film Director/Producer, Author, LecturerIndividual
Joanna Lipper is an award-winning British-American film director, producer, writer and lyricist, with a PhD in Women's Studies. Based in the UK, she runs Vertumnus Productions. With a focus on socially relevant, transnational feminist themes and a commitment to creating authentic, ground-breaking roles for women onscreen, this company is at the cutting-edge when it comes to engaging global audiences with films that inspire timely and provocative conversations. She is developing and attached to direct several book-to-screenplay adaptations including a musical feature film adaptation of the novel Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo. As a Lecturer at Harvard in the Department of African and African-American Studies, Dr. Lipper taught Using Film For Social Change. She was recently a Research Associate at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, and an Academic Visitor at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford.