Robert M. Price, a fan of H.P. Lovecraft since the Lancer paperback collections of 1967 appeared, began writing scholarly articles ands humorous pieces on HPL and the Cthulhu Mythos in 1981. His celebrated semi-pro zine Crypt of Cthulhu began as a quarterly fanzine for the Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association in 1981 and made it to 109 issues. In 1990 he began editing Mythos anthologies for Fedogan & Bremer and Chaosium, Inc. and still does! His fiction has been collected in Blasphemies and Revelations.
OG Lurker, Filmmaker, HPLFF San Pedro (2010-2016)
Kevin Leeson is a Producer, Screenwriter, and Story Editor in the film and television industry. He has produced on projects featuring such diverse talents as Steve Austin, Daniel Stern, Mira Sorvino, Dolph Lundgren, and Toni Braxton. Kevin co-wrote and published a 6-issue limited comic book series “Outnumbered”, and was a contributor to the Shuster Award-adjacent Crime Anthology Graphic Novel “Acts Of Violence”. He is one of the co-hosts of the award-winning podcast “Caustic Soda”, and revels in finding the funny in the macabre inherent in the world around us.
Andrew Migliore is the founder and original director of the annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon. Andrew is also the co-author of Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft published by Night Shade Books and was founder and producer at Lurker Films where he launched The H. P. Lovecraft Collection, The Weird Tale Collection, and The Edgar Allan Poe Collection on DVD. See his past Founder articles at the Daily Lurker https://medium.com/daily-lurker
Ron Hilger is a Northern California native who has organized such Clark Ashton Smith related events as "The CAS Centennial Conference" in 1993 and "The CAS Plaque Dedication" in 2002.
Rion Smith is a bipedal mammal with an unhealthy obsession with Lovecraftian tales and is chained to the insanity of his job in order to pay for his film habit. He is currently trying to relearn what “sleep” means after the recent birth of his a baby girl, and this will be her first of many HP Lovecraft Film Festival attendances.
Jeff Richards has worked in the film industry for over 15 years as an independent film development executive, writer, filmmaker, and consultant. As a screenwriter, he has been hired to write everything from multi-million dollar feature films to zero-budget indies. In addition to feature and short films, his writing includes episodic television and web series, comics, video games, short fiction and novels, children’s animation, and even co-composing a musical. He writes a column for Script Magazine and serves as an Advisory Board Member for Toronto film and media start-up Spidvid.
Mehgan Atchison has had a life-long love of performing. With an early focus on dance, she then found acting and singing - especially, opera - to be where her talents could really shine. After completing music performance degrees at the Universities of Victoria and Toronto, she built a professional singing career, with engagements from Victoria to Halifax, including nearly a decade of performing with the prestigious Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. A change of scenery led her back to Vancouver where an interest in film began developing.
Brett Stillo is a San Francisco-‐based filmmaker with an eye focused on cinematic imagery of the past: a shadowy place that appears black and white on the surface, but is actually composed of myriad shades of grey. He is the principal cameraman, editor and director of “Flesh and Bone,” a music video in collaboration with San Francisco post-‐punk band Roadside Memorial, which infuses dark romantic melodies with visual cues to hardboiled detective movies and 1930’s pulp horror.