Lindsay Morrison

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Director - "Reliquary: Confession"

Lindsay Morrison is a Denver-based filmmaker and a Los Angeles ex-pat with a passion for horror and a deep love of all things beautifully bizarre. In addition to filmmaking, she has a background in art & design, and brings her dark yet colorful artistic sensibilities to everything she does. Her stories often revolve around themes of self-identity, sexuality, dreams, nightmares, and the sublime.

Michael La Breche

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Michael La Breche is a filmmaker, born and raised in Colorado, who grew up obsessed with all things horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.  He studied animation before heading to Los Angeles where he earned an MFA in film production at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.  After graduating, Michael dove into the film industry and over the past decade he has worked on numerous projects in a variety roles.  In 2019 Michael returned home to Denver with the love of his life, Lindsay Morrison, to start a new production company: WOLF LUV FILMS.  He is focused on creating original content such as t

Brian Hauser

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Brian Hauser is a screenwriter, filmmaker, novelist, and scholar of weird fiction. He has won the HPLFF screenwriting award three times. This year he will be reading from his upcoming novel Above and Beyond, a weird noir thriller set in San Francisco in 1942.

David Heath

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David Heath is a podcaster and blogger who has hosted shows such as Dave's Underground Goat Shenanigans,and Radio Free Oleander. He is currently the co-host of The People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos. He lives with his extended family in northern Oregon on a working goat farm.

Patrick Murphy

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Patrick Murphy is an adjunct professor at Weber State University in Ogden Utah, teaching in the communication department. He has a Master's of Arts in English and a Master's of Professional Communication. Murphy incorporates comic books, science fiction (including Lovecraft) and all things nerdy into his curriculum. He has participated in numerous pop-culture conventions and academic conferences discussing his approach to education.

Cem Karayakas

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Cem Karayakas was born in 1995 and grew up in Cologne. During his childhood, he was an actor on stage and television. He developed his great interest in Animation and Film through acting, but also animated movies. From 2015 to 2018 he studied and graduated from ifs internationale filmschule koeln in Digital Film Arts. During his studies, he was an animator for several projects and specialized in emotional expressions. 

Andrew Gleason

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Andrew Gleason is a director and cinematographer who loves creating and watching horror movies. He is an active member making movies in his local Champaign film community, and volunteering with the Champaign-Urbana Film Society and Champaign Movie Makers. When he isn’t making movies, he is spending time sharing his love for movies with his two children, Eva and Liam.

 

 

Ludvig Gür

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Ludvig Gür is an award-winning Swedish filmmaker whose most recent film, The Outsider, is an adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name and will be shown at the festival. Apart from short films, Ludvig has mainly directed documentaries, in both short and feature-format. He has spent the last two years directing a skateboarding documentary starring Tony Hawk, entitled Pretending I'm a Superman. It is set to be released later this year.

Kola Krauze

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Kola Krauze is an English actor working professionally out of London and Stockholm since 2003. His film and TV credits include The Bridge, Outlander, 24: Live Another Day, and Wallander. In his twenties he was the lead singer of cult death metal band Dark Heresy. An avid fan of fantasy and science fiction he is an expert in the field of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, as well as having devoured the writings of H. P. Lovecraft as well as other legends such as Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard and Jorge Luis Borges.

Thomas Chrétien

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Fascinated by storytelling since he was a child, Thomas Chrétien studied 2D and 3D animation in Montréal. Over the years he worked as a director, VFX artist, editor, CG generalist. He was one of the three co-directors who made Le Gouffre, an independent, award-winning animated short film that was released in 2014. Red Moon is his first live action short film.  

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