A 15 year veteran of motion picture, television and commercial production, Thomai Hatsios is a visionary in every sense of the word. Few filmmakers are as multi-disciplined as Thomai, her experience includes, live theater, avant garde performance art, all aspects of film production and leading her own production company. She currently volunteers at Agape
International; directing multiple cameras for a live web cast while also being a dedicated and passionate member of the development team for AMI.
"Dead Hooker In A Trunk" is the debut feature film written, directed, and produced by identical twin film makers, Jen and Sylvia Soska. DHIAT's trailer screened at the Viscera 2010 Premiere. Their greatest ambition is that their film will inspire others to set out and make their own dreams happen for themselves, not just limited to film, but in any and every part of their lives.
The Soska's WIH Month 2011 PSA and teaser for "American Mary" their 2nd feature film is screening at the Viscera 2011 LA Film Festival.
Jasmine Hirst 's photographic artwork is represented by Illuminated Metropolis Gallery in New York and her films are collected by the New York Filmmaker's Co-op. Jasmine's films delve into the darkest recesses of humanity's most ferocious wounds: abuse, broken hearts, suicide and murder.
Jasmine creates films to attempt to make sense of the senselessness and brutality of this world.
Lainy is a writer, filmmaker and freelance editor living in Seattle. Lainy has also worked as a PA and videographer for a number of local Seattle productions. In addition, Lainy, with camera in hand, has filmed local concerts and events. While not working on film, Lainy has done production and operations work for the Seattle International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival.
Kate Shenton has directed numerous productions in both film and theatre. her work tends to take fantasy and horror elements, blending them with comedy and surrealist presentation.
www.kate-shenton.com
Dara Jade Moats loves new adventures and got her start in film, television and new media as a graphic designer in Nairobi, Kenya. She has worked in reality television, a new media centre for woman artists and most recently as an Associate Producer at the National Film Board of Canada.
Her main passion is the horror genre.
Jon Deitcher founded Endorphin Films in 2003 and has been directing, editing and producing short, feature and documentary films since 2000. Most recently he co-produced Jump!”The World’s Greatest Streakers” a one hour documentary and is in post production on his first feature film as director Long Gone Days.
Jon Deitcher worked with Dara Jade Moats
on "Adventure Girls III".
Filmmaker Susan Bell loves scaring people. Shes directed multiple short films, including THE PATCHWORK MONKEY, THE RESURRCTIONIST and THE BOARDER. Under the banner of Charon Pictures Inc., she is currently producing a project involving the Los Angeles Ghost Patrols reality TV pilot footage. In addition, for the past five years she has worked as a producer and project manager on several animated TV shows including the Emmy-winning ROBOT CHICKEN.
Emily Carmichael lives to delight you.
Sage Hall has emerged as a quadruple threat to the entertainment world: producing, directing, editing and even starring in her distinguished artistic short films. When she's not flying to a film screening or in the theatre directing and acting, she runs StarFruit Productions - creating stunning, award-winning wedding films as well as an eclectic mix of commercial spots, ranging from baseball commercials to drag queen bingo promos.
www.starfruitproductions.com
Scottish writer/director Faye Jackson’s horror short LUMP played internationally from Paris to Rio de Janeiro. It was featured in New York magazine as one of the top 5 shorts of the 44th New York Film Festival, where it screened on the closing night, twinned with PAN’S LABYRINTH. Jackson shot STRIGOI in Romania with a predominantly Romanian crew and an entirely Romanian cast (who all perform in English). A frequent visitor to Romania, Jackson chose to use the folklore vampire (the Strigoi) to tell the story of one village’s “revolution”. STRIGOI has won 15 international festival awards including Best Independent Film at Toronto After Dark 2009. The Austin Chronicle called STRIGOI “a beautiful black rose blooming in the maw of an (un)dying, overkilled film genre.”
Lola RocknRolla started as a musician playing punk rock saxophone for her band Get it Gurly". She then directed her first video "Dry Hump". From there she went onto direct and write 3 short films and one feature. She has also done numerous music videos and directed a national kids show "Biz Kids" for PBS as well as a documentary on the 2002 Olympics. She directed "Dragzilla" and "Night of the Living Gay" and
"I was a Tranny Werewolf".
Lola is currently fundraising for a horror feature and in post for her Blaxploitation short "Nefertitty"
Staci Layne Wilson is a writer and journalist.
Rachael Deacon, patron saint of ugly things, grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is an only child, her parents are still together, and she was never bullied in school. The dark subject matter of her work is the result of a predispostion for the subversive which crossed the line between interest and obsession long before puberty struck and amplified it. There is very little justification for her perversities otherwise. She also loves tiny baby animals and staying up past her bedtime.
www.gonzoriffic.com
Helen Komini Olsen studied film at Westerdals School of Communication before she studied direction at The Norwegian Film School in Lilehammer. She has directed music videos, commercials, and several shorts. Her first short, Luggage, was screened at several national and international film festivals. Helen currently works at the production company Mediacircus Drama, developing shorts, TV series and feature films.
www.komini.no
Tyrrell Shaffner was born in Omaha, Nebraska and came to Los Angles to study film at the University of Southern California. Her USC thesis film, "Different", a teen comedy about a parallel universe where gay is norm, screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide, won awards and is widely distributed on DVD. She is drawn to genre films with an original twist and has since directed and/or produced some 15 films, both short and feature length. She currectly directs and produces for SpiritClips, a new media company founded by Academy Award-winning producer Rob Fried.
Jennifer Eiss is a writer and book editor with a passion for all things horror. She has edited diverse books on art, comics, literature, and film. Her first book as author, "The 500 Essential Cult Movies", was published in June 2010. "Short Lease" is her first film.
Prano Bailey-Bond is an ambitious and imaginative filmmaker. Originally from mid-west Wales, she has worked in the film and television industries in London, Wales and Nigeria since grduating in Film & Video from the London College of Printing, 2005. With a backgrounsd n performance art and painting, Prano approaches storytelling in original and suitably inventive ways, often bordering on the dark side. her short films have been screened at The Halloween Film Festival and The Short Ends Film Festival.
Born in Venezuela, GiGi arrves in spain in 2000 where she obtains a degree in media communication and a film direction specialiation. Since then, she's been working in the production area for various publicity and music videos shootings. In 2006 she directs her first short film "Smile" and in 2009 "Together" selected at festivals around the world. She is now working on the post production of her first Venezuelan short "Nada" ("Nothing"). She has also written and directed "Logico" ("Logical") and "Cosas que Pasan" ("Things that Happen"). Her last work "Se Acabo La Fiesta" was shot for an internet film festival, being one of the finalists. Gigi resides between Caracas and Madrid.
www.vimeo.com/gigiromero
Molly Madfis studied at Otis College of Art and Designin Los Angeles, graduating with a BFA in Digital Media. After college, she worked a bunch as a motion graphic artist, holding a position at Warner Brothers for quite some time. She’s now working as a freelance designer, blogger, and avid horror movie viewer. Great at impressions. Excellent people skills. Quite blonde.
Lori Bowen is an award-winning writer and director whos been a life-long devotee of the horror genre having seen (and been scared crapless by) Cujo at the tender age of six and was
fully indoctrinated to the world of horror by a viewing of Lucio Fulcis The Gates of Hell (a.k.a. City of the Living Dead) at the age of ten. While her main focus is on the horror genre, where her first film, Without/Within, won the Directors Choice Award from ShockerFest International Film Festival in 2008 and her third short film, A Hammer Fell in Jerusalem: Anathema, placed fourth in the Indie Gatherings Best Sci-Fi category in 2009, shes also won awards for her documentary work: a rough cut of 2010s Circus Sarasota won Best
Cut and A Conversation with Bertha Palmer: The
Queen of Sarasota won Best of Sarasota (short) at the Sarasota Fringe Film Festival in 2010.
Though still a student at the Art Center College of Design, Mae Catt has already begun a lucrative and promising film career. Having won numerous awards for filmmaking and screenwriting since high school she strives to understand all the steps and components to making movies. Notably, she was the assistanct editor on the theatrically released slasher, "Hatchet 2", as well as apost-productions supervisor for the Showtime television series, "look". She has recently begun work as a screenwriter for Prolifi Entertainment. Just this previous summer she was a film development intern for Marvel Studios, the makers of "Iron Man:", "The Incredible Hulk", "Thor", etc...She continues to work as a digital image technicin for numerous projects ranging from films to commmercials.
Cassandra Sechler is a multimedia artist living in San Francisco, California. She primarily works with film, video, photography, and sculpture. Her background is in conceptual art and psychology, which aids her in providing her viewer with expressionistic works that are both personal and poetic. The nature of femininity, sexuality, body image, identity, dreams, kitsch, consciousness, technological infrastructure, and her place within them are often the main focus of her work as a visual artist.
Annette was born and raised in Detroit. The inspiration for THE BLOOD SHOP eveolved from the many years she and her brothers spent working at their father's welding shop in the Motorcity. Many of the machines and the killer's welding mask & gear are dated back to the early 1930's. THE BLOOD SHOP is a feature-length project currently in the early stages of pre-production.
Ruby La Rocca is an actress, director, write,r and art director. and has added almost 20 movies to her resume and has worked with some of her own personal idols such as Linnea Quigley and Tiffany Shepis. Ruby has no plans of slowing down either. She also was asked to write a blog on KillerReviews website, and has a blog of her own on her website. Going forward she plans to keep acting, writing, and directing as much as possible. She feels extremely fortunate for her continued success and her motto is “I support dangerous art, fearless hearts, and the monster inside.”
Briony Kidd grew up in Tasmania and graduated from the VCA Film School in Melbourne. She's made numerous short films and wrote the script for the award-winning animation "Sam and Piccolo." She has several feature film projects in development, including a supernatural thriller with a feminist bent and a black comedy about gambling addiction. She's also written and directed theatre and is working on a young adult novel. Briony's favourite filmmakers include Hitchcock, Jane Campion, Park Chan-Wook, Dario Argento and Powell and Pressburger.
www.thetopofthestairs.com
Karen Lam has been a full-time producer since 2000, producing two feature films, four short films, and three television series. Highlights include: "The Bone Snatcher" (2003) was the first Canada/South Africa/UK feature film certified under the South Africa/Canada treaty. She produced the fourth season of "The Creative Native" (2005) and the short film "Head Shot" for Dennis Heaton (2006). Her first short film as a writer/director ("The Cabinet") won the NSI Drama Prize in 2006. She has since written five feature film screenplays, and directed her first feature film ("Stained") in November 2009, a BC/Saskatchewan co-production, which recently premiered as part of the Telefilm "Perspective Canada" showcase at the Canne Film Makret. She is currently in pre-production on two feature films: "Evangeline" and "Covet" which are slated to go into production inthe summer and fall of 2011.
Born in 1982 in Castelo Branco (Portugal), Ana Almeida majored in Sound and Image at the School of Arts of the Oporto Catholic School. Academically, she directed the short film For Five Minutes It Was Impossible to Breathe, adaptation of a Stephen King horror story and produced Uma Quest„o de Sangue, a black comedy showed in the Fantasporto Film Festival.
The Bride was her first work as a director
in an independent Project.
She has worked extensively as a TV Editor and Chief of Production. In 2010, she created the film production Anexo 82 where she produced and edited two shorts films - O Risco (The Line) and Temperar a Gosto (Season at Taste). In 2011, she will return to the directors chair adapting her awarded script Videoclube.
www.anexo82.com
L. Whyte is a masked vigilante and crime fighter whose mild-mannered alterego is an artist and animator
based in Dundee, Scotland. When she isn't tackling the forces of evil she can occasionally be found
teaching 2D animation at Dundee College, making short films, and writing mildly amusing but largely
falsified biographies on application forms.
www.voodoobeans.org
After producing almost 20 films and new media projects, "Box" marks Nikki Wall’s directorial debut. The wife of indie filmmaker Creep Creepersin and mother of two is from southern California and has spent her entire adult life working within the entertainment industry. In addition to filmmaking, Nikki is also a published author and works as a freelance writer, blogger, and is the owner of www.paranormalutopia.com and creator of the Universal Inspiration Project.
www.creepersinfilms.com www.UniversalInspirationProject.com
Marichelle Daywalt is the producer/director of "Mockingbird" and "The Many Doors of Albert Whale". 37-year-old mother of two, Marichelle Daywalt studied film at Emerson College in Boston. When she read the script for "Mockingbird," she felt particularly compelled to direct it. She wanted to set it on an ordinary day, in an ordinary home, under ordinary circumstances, in concordance with her belief that real horror doesnt wait for the sun to set. It happens when you least expect it.
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