Gretchen Brooks

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Gretchen has volunteered at Portland Horror Film Festival and the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival since 2016, and helps judge films for both. As a lifelong fan of horror movies, she loves found footage films and exorcism movies. She is a co-host for Gwen & Gretchen Watch Movies, Check The Gate podcast, co-hosted the Kaijucast podcast, and was a frequent guest on Horror Brew podcast.

Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito

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Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito (she/her) is a Chinese American writer in Portland, Oregon. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Nailed Magazine, Buckman Journal, Flame Tree Press's Asian Ghost Stories, Strangehouse's Chromophobia, Startling Stories, Not a Pipe's Stories Within, Mother: Tales of Love and Terror, Death’s Garden Revisited, and Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror. Frances also co-chairs the Young Willamette Writers program that provides free writing classes for high school and middle school students.

Mark Devendorf

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Mark graduated from UCSC with his bachelor’s in Film and Television. He worked for Roger Corman’s New Horizon script department and later for the producer of Piranha 3D directed by Alexandre Aja. He has made dozens of award-winning films and documentaries, including Manumission, Starved, and Cassandra, which was nominated for a student Academy Award, and An Inaugural Ride to Freedom, which won an Emmy.

Heather Humpleman

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Heather Humpleman is the director of “Whisper in the Static”, and the Co-Founder of Midnight Hour Studios, a Los Angeles-based production company. She graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and has been fortunate to serve and support their alumni as both the President of the Women of Cinematic Arts and the Director of Membership for the Trojan Entertainment Network. Heather is also a member of LA’s Asian Business Association, a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, and a US-UK dual-citizen.

Kasie Heister

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Kasie Heister is a Southern California native, and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California and her Masters of Business Administration, specializing in Entertainment Management, from the University of California, Los Angeles. "Whisper in the Static" is her inaugural film, and she is currently in development on the feature version.

Nick Harrington

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Nick Harrington is a producer and editor who was born and raised in Los Angeles. His early fascination with movies inspired him to collaborate with friends on backyard ‘epics’ - modest but formative ventures into visual storytelling. This passion compelled him to study film production at Occidental College. Currently he works as the lead editor at Midnight Hour Studios. Nick is the Line Producer for "Whisper in the Static".

Nathan Carter

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Nathan Carter is a writer, cinematographer and eclectic. He was raised in the wilds of East Texas — primarily by books and movies — and moved to Los Angeles to study creative writing and animation at the University of Southern California. He never left. He currently serves as the creative director at Midnight Hour Studios, where he brings a cinematic approach to the stories of educational, non-profit and public-minded institutions. Nathan is the Writer & Cinematographer of "Whisper in the Static."

Vanessa-Tatjana Beerli

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Vanessa-Tatjana Beerli directed a few short films, including Tv Dinner, nominated for the Canadian Screen Awards in 2005, before founding Ciné Tapis Rouge. The Organization's mission is to promote independent Quebec cinema all around the world. Vanessa works as this date with more than thirty countries and a hundred film festivals. She is also a programmer, producer, editor and a regular member of juries.

Pierre LeBlanc

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Pierre LeBlanc is new to filmmaking, but when it comes to Lovecraftian horror, he is the resident expert on the subject. In 2022, he co-founded "Mountains of Madness Productions" with his good friend and director, Vanessa-Tatjana Beerli, to produce their first short film: "Tubers".

Marilyn Bastien

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After studying at Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe's School of Theatre, Marilyn Bastien founded "Pourquoi Scène" in 2012, a theatre company where she produced the French Canadian version of the play “The Vagina Monologues” as well as "Les fées ont soif". In 2018, she founded "Pourquoi Productions Inc.”, focusing on cinema and television. That same year, she produced and starred in director Jean Sébastien Lozeau's debut feature film, "Live Story”. Presently, she co-directs and produces "Dehors Novembre”, a show touring Quebec until 2024.

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