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.
Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Nick began his filmmaking career at a young age. He began writing screenplays at the early age of thirteen. Shortly afterwards, he invested in a cheap camera and began directing his scripts. After high school, Nick went to The University of Calgary where he studied film studies and creative writing. After two years he moved to Vancouver where he graduated in film production. Immediately after film school, Nick began working in the industry. To date, Nick has worked on over 150 films in the sound, camera, grip, post and art departments.
Cameron was born and raised in North Bay, Ontario where he grew up surrounded by a family of photographers and photo finishers. Early in his life he took a liking to photography and immediately started working for the family business. From that passion for photography grew an eye for film, which formed an obsession for the art. Driven by that obsession, Cameron picked up and moved out west to study film production. It was in Vancouver where he graduated and perfected his cinematography techniques.