Jane Thandi Lipman

An award-winning director in Canada and the United States, her experience spans over twenty years during which she worked at the BBC, at Channel 4, the CBC’s flagship national news and Current Affairs program in Toronto and independently in TV and film. In 1997 she ended her exile from South Africa, where she was born. She worked on the internationally acclaimed Steps for the Future series, which concerned HIV/AIDS in South Africa. She is currently directing a documentary for CBC, which looks at South Africa, socially and politically, just before the June 2010 Soccer World Cup and, with partners in Rome, London, Toronto and Paris is working on a feature film. She remains committed to the aims of Courting Justice and to the empowerment of the women in the judiciary.