Jessie Keller

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After spending his first decade of adult life alternately working and bumming around the world, from Phnom Penh to Ouagadougou, Jesse Keller decided he wanted to be a filmmaker. He got his MFA at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and then made his first feature film, Blood Will Have Blood, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime. His short films have also played at festivals around the USA. When not shooting, he teaches filmmaking at San Diego Mesa College.

Izzy Lee

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Named by the AV Club as one of 10 female horror directors Blumhouse should hire, Izzy Lee is a writer and twice-nominated Rondo Award filmmaker. She has written for several fiction anthologies, as well as Birth.Movies.Death., Rue Morgue, Fangoria, Dread Central, and Diabolique, and is an editor for ScreenAnarchy.

Jon Dearnley

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Jon Dearnley is a Maine native, Philadelphia-based Director of Photography who has worked on everything from short films to network TV, music videos and features. He and Christian Matzke have collaborated for over 20 years on Lovecraftian and sci-fi short film projects.

Michael Shlain

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Michael Shlain knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, he is a writer-director and partner at Butcher Bird Studios, an award-winning creative media company in Los Angeles.  Trained as an actor, he began his career as a literary agent before heeding the persistent cries of his soul and returning to his roots as a filmmaker.  Recently, Shlain’s multi-format TV horror anthology IN A FOREIGN TOWN was an official selection at the 2019 MIPTV “In Development" forum at the Canneseries festival.

Henrik Moller

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Henrik Möller is a Swedish underground filmmaker with over a hundred satirical short films to his credit. In the world of horror films he is mostly known for the Philip K Dick film festival winner "Inviting the Demon" and the H.P. Lovecraft film festival best feature winner "Feed the Light".

Malcolm Mills

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Malcolm Mills is a NYC-based filmmaker, actor, and songwriter. "You were really creepy!" is the most common compliment he received from years of theater. He plays a necromancer opposite Betty Gabriel (Get Out) in an upcoming feature, The Spine of Night, directed by the screenwriter of Netflix's Love, Death & Robots, Phil Gelatt.

Matthias Couquet

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After having studied cinema in Paris, Matthias Couquet has dedicated himself to the craft of filmmaking, while teaching screenwriting in workshops. He released his first non-student short film in 2018 with "The Summoned," a macabre tale which draws both from his strong leaning towards the fantastic genre and his interest in modern history and historical fiction. He is working on several movie projects and writing scripts for others, while continuing his own directorial plans. Matthias aims to pursue what he started with "The Summoned" and to keep bringing "weird fiction" to the screen.

Thomas Mercillon

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Passionate about cinema since childhood, Thomas Mercillon studied cinema in a Parisian film school in order to materialize this passion. During his studies in Paris, he met his friend Matthias Couquet, with whom he co-authored and co-directed his first short film, and wrote his first full length screenplay. Since then, Thomas Mercillon has written several short films, including "The Summoned," and is developping concepts and scripts for television series and more feature films.

Roger Corman

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With hundreds of movies to his credit, Roger Corman is one of the most prolific producers in the history of the film medium and one of the most successful. Corman has been dubbed, among other things, "The King of the Cult Film" and "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and his filmography is packed with hundreds of remarkably entertaining films in addition to dozens of genuine cult classics. Corman has displayed an unrivaled eye for talent over the years and his influence on modern American cinema is almost incalculable. Born April 5, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan.

Tim Troemner

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Tim Troemner is a writer, filmmaker, writing instructor, and film festival programmer who enjoys making absurd/cute horror films. He’s here this year with short Lovecraft adaptation “The Pickman Model,” which updates the classic story to the modern day—a really weird version of the modern day...

His mother is proud of him but wishes he’d make something without so much blood one day.

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