Alaric Rocha

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Alaric S. Rocha has been making films since 1999 where he first learned the craft from Club Panico in London an organization run by some of the crew members of Monty Python. His work has been screened at many film festivals including the Chicago International Film Festival, Sitges, Dances with Films, LA and more. Alaric earned his MFA in digital cinema from DePaul University in 2014 and a BM from Lawrence University in 2002. His musical background has a huge influence on his style of filmmaking and subject matter.

Roland Becerra

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Roland Becerra grew up in Miami’s “Little Havana”, where he witnessed the process of recreating Cuban culture in a new homeland through stories, art, and music. This deeply impacted his path toward becoming an artist. He earned an MFA from Yale University and has exhibited his work throughout the east coast. His first animated short “Dear Beautiful” premiered at Sundance in 2009. Roland spent the last decade making “Agatha” into a feature-length animated film and currently into a graphic novel. He is also a Professor of Art and Animation at Boise State University.

Alice Langlois

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Alice Langlois is a stop-motion animator and musician from rural Western Massachusetts, the place which fostered her deep love for nature and the environment. From leaves and seed pods to feathers and scales, elements of the natural world are an integral part of Alice's artistic process, making their way into her films, music, and sculptures. Currently living and working in the animation industry in Portland, OR, Alice can often be found discovering strange creatures or gathering moss in old-growth forests.

Joseph Scrimshaw

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Joseph Scrimshaw is a filmmaker, writer, and comedian based in Los Angeles. His film, "The Narrator," starring Phil LaMarr won the Silver Award for Best Experimental short at the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology. He’s delighted to be back at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival after showing his 2022 film, "Unboxing The Cosmos," and multiple appearances with Tim Uren as the comedy cultists, Chuck & Dexter.

Danny Ashkenasi

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Danny Ashkenasi is an American theater/film director, composer, actor, writer and producer born in Berlin, Germany. His first short film “The Tell -Tale Heart – a musicabre” played at over 80 film festivals, winning over 65 awards. His second short “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” is starting its festival run, already receiving many awards. Danny has created numerous music theater pieces that span a variety of styles from musical comedy to experimental.

Troy Fortenberry

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Troy Fortenberry has been a lifelong film geek starting with playing with his parents VHS camcorder and making home movies as a child. He was involved in theatre in college before moving into cinema. When not directing he writes plays and films.

Kate Fortenberry

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Kate Fortenberry is a writer and former teacher who quit during the pandemic to pursue a career in film. She acts in front of the camera, edits, does sound design, and color corrects afterwards.

Hailey Clement

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Hailey Clement is a sound aficionado who not only enjoys being a sound mixer for film, but also a foley artist with her own instagram and youtube channel specializing in culinary acoustics.

Midnight Van Buren

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Part-time high-school teacher, part-time college professor, Patrick Murphy somehow finds time to be a part-time filmmaker with Blaine Taggart and Mike Terrell. Mixing horror and comedy, the micro-crew have produced shorts for two decades.

Jesse Terrell

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Owner and Head of Production at Strike With Chaos Productions. Jesse Terrell, as a director, has been making music videos, commercials and fashion films for over 10 years. As a writer he has written several scripts both short and feature length. "Sights Unseen" is his first narrative short.

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