Cameron Pierce is the Wonderland Book Award-winning author of nine books, including Cthulhu Comes to the Vampire Kingdom. He has also edited three anthologies for Eraserhead Press, most recently In Heaven, Everything Is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch.
Born in Istanbul, 1982, Can Evrenol ("To My Mother and Father") graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with joint honours in 'Art History' and 'Film Studies'. In the summer of 2007 he shot his first independent short film "The Chest", with his family and friends on the street he grew up on. It went on to be screened at such festivals as "Montreal, Fantasia Film Festival", "Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival", "Sydney a Night of Horrors". He is now based in London, running his own filmmaking and editing company.
Casey T. Malone has been knocking around the TV and film world for a number of years including working on shows for Discovery Channel and PBS. As an independent filmmaker he has several credits to his name including the short films "Fortuna," "The Modern Man," and "The Professor," which he produced specifically for HPLFF PDX 2013.
The grandson of "Berkeley Square" director Frank Lloyd, Chris and his sister Antonia have maintained the legacy of Frank alive through the website www.FrankLloydFilms.com. After receiving a Master's degree from UCLA in Theater Arts (motion pictures) Christopher Gray taught film technique and history at the University of Brasilia, Brazil for the US Peace Corps. Returning to the US he has worked in all facets of documentary and education film production and post production.
Clay first became interested in filmmaking while attending screenwriting classes from writer/director Tom Vaughan. After writing screenplays for the class and assisting others as an extra and PA, Clay decided to partner with musician/record producer, Scott Ayers to produce their first film, “The Shadow on the Wall.” Clay’s second film, “The Picture in the House,” is a stylized adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft short story. When not writing or filmmaking, Clay works as an engineer in Houston.
Colin Fong is a director, writer, and videographer of short films, music videos and live visuals. He has worked in advertising and made videos for the bands MUSE and Bradberry Orchestra. Colin enjoys working on projects that involve practical effects, puppets and hand made crafts.He is an avid collector of comic books who recently moved to Portland, Oregon with his wife Brooke from Brisbane, Australia.
D.H. Covey is a Automatism Surrealist painter and motion picture storyboard artist. He is a graduate of The Maryland Institute of Fine Arts and moved to Hollywood in 1997 to work with Brian Yuzna on the movie Progeny. This led to more work on over 20 motion picture, video and TV projects. Both of his children attend Cal Poly Pomona. Michelle is a Fine Arts major, and Adam is a Industrial Engineer.
Dan O'Bannon is the well-known screenwriter behind the classics Alien, Total Recall, Lifeforce, Heavy Metal (two segments), Dark Star (which he did the special effects for and starred in as well; this led to a stint on Star Wars as a special effects designer) and Return of the Living Dead (which he also directed).
Dan could not be here in person due to health reasons but we have captured his essential saltes on the crawling celluloid which is the next best thing for us Lurkers.
Recent film credits include: The Whisperer in Darkness, My Religion, Power Poison, and Zombie Holocaust and You! Other Film credits include: Katherine (Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival), Still Life, The Night Before, Dream, Hitclown, and Side Effects Include. Television credits include: Alias, Days of Our Lives, Passions, To Pay The Rent, and Pirate Waters.
Darren discovered Lovecraft in the early 1990s when he started playing The Call of Cthulhu. He studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before working as an actor on stage and screen. One of his first jobs was as actor and fight choreographer in Christopher Nolan’s debut film, ‘Following’. Between acting jobs he worked as a prop maker and made The Book of the Dead featured in Brendan Fraser’s The Mummy films. In 2004 he wrote his first play ‘Hamburg,’ about the RAF raids in World War II, for the London Terror Season.