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Éric Falardeau
Éric Falardeau is a writer and filmmaker. He has written and
directed short films, a music video, the horror feature Thanatomorphose
(2012) and the Adult Time film The Thing from the Lake (2019). He was
guest curator of the exhibition Secrets and Illusions, the Magic of Special
Effects at the Cinémathèque québécoise (2013-17). He is the author of Une
histoire des effets spéciaux au Québec (2017) and Le corps souillé :
Gore, pornographie et fluides corporels (2019). His latest short film Asmodeus
(2021) is currently screening at festivals around the world.
Biographic Note
Éric Falardeau is a writer and filmmaker. He has written and
directed short films, a music video, the horror feature Thanatomorphose
(2012) and the Adult Time film The Thing from the Lake (2019). He was
guest curator of the exhibition Secrets and Illusions, the Magic of Special
Effects at the Cinémathèque québécoise (2013-17). He is the author of Une
histoire des effets spéciaux au Québec (2017) and Le corps souillé :
Gore, pornographie et fluides corporels (2019). His latest short film Asmodeus
(2021) is currently screening at festivals around the world.
Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
Sorcha Ni Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and American Studies, and a founding member of the Manchester centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published widely on gothic and horror studies, including Clive Barker:Dark Imaginer(Manchester, 2017) and Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2019). She is currently working on the long 1980s onscreen.
Biographic Note
Sorcha Ni Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and American Studies, and a founding member of the Manchester centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published widely on gothic and horror studies, including Clive Barker:Dark Imaginer(Manchester, 2017) and Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2019). She is currently working on the long 1980s onscreen.
Austin Fisher
Austin Fisher is Principal Academic in Media Production at Bournemouth University. He is author of Blood in the Streets: Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema (EUP, 2019) and Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western (I.B. Tauris, 2011), and editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (EUP, 2016). He is also co-editor (with Johnny Walker) of both Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Bloomsbury’s ‘Global Exploitation Cinemas’ book series.
Biographic Note
Austin Fisher is Principal Academic in Media Production at Bournemouth University. He is author of Blood in the Streets: Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema (EUP, 2019) and Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western (I.B. Tauris, 2011), and editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (EUP, 2016). He is also co-editor (with Johnny Walker) of both Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Bloomsbury’s ‘Global Exploitation Cinemas’ book series.
Rodman Flender
Rodman Flender has worked in film, theater, documentary and television. His genre directing credits include Dimension TV’s Scream, the TV Series; HBO’s Tales From the Crypt; The Roger Corman-produced feature The Unborn; and Columbia Pictures’ Idle Hands. He recently wrapped shooting the horror-comedy Eat, Brains, Love for production company Gunpowder & Sky. He has lectured on television directing at USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program and film analysis at Harvard University.
Biographic Note
Rodman Flender has worked in film, theater, documentary and television. His genre directing credits include Dimension TV’s Scream, the TV Series; HBO’s Tales From the Crypt; The Roger Corman-produced feature The Unborn; and Columbia Pictures’ Idle Hands. He recently wrapped shooting the horror-comedy Eat, Brains, Love for production company Gunpowder & Sky. He has lectured on television directing at USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program and film analysis at Harvard University.
David Flint
DAVID FLINT is a freelance writer, sometime filmmaker and full time angry misanthrope who has edited Sheer Filth, Divinity and Headpress, authored Babylon Blue, Ten Years of Terror and Zombie Holocaust and written for publications ranging from Rapid Eye, Bizarre and Skin Two to Penthouse, Loaded and Mayfair.
Biographic Note
DAVID FLINT is a freelance writer, sometime filmmaker and full time angry misanthrope who has edited Sheer Filth, Divinity and Headpress, authored Babylon Blue, Ten Years of Terror and Zombie Holocaust and written for publications ranging from Rapid Eye, Bizarre and Skin Two to Penthouse, Loaded and Mayfair.
Kieran Foster
Dr Kieran Foster is an Associate Lecturer at De Montfort University and Nottingham Trent University. His research centres on unmade films, with his PhD completed in 2019 presenting a chronological study of Hammer Films through their unmade projects. He was the producer of Vampirella: A Live Script Reading in 2019, and has written extensively on the topic of unmade Hammer Films. He is the co-editor of Bloomsbury’s Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films and is on the editorial board of Intellect’s Unmade Films and Television book series.
Biographic Note
Dr Kieran Foster is an Associate Lecturer at De Montfort University and Nottingham Trent University. His research centres on unmade films, with his PhD completed in 2019 presenting a chronological study of Hammer Films through their unmade projects. He was the producer of Vampirella: A Live Script Reading in 2019, and has written extensively on the topic of unmade Hammer Films. He is the co-editor of Bloomsbury’s Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films and is on the editorial board of Intellect’s Unmade Films and Television book series.
William Fowler
William Fowler is a writer, film historian and musician. He is Curator of Artists’ Moving Image, BFI National Archive and the co-founder and co-programmer of The Flipside at BFI Southbank. His seasons and restoration projects at the BFI have included GAZWRX: the films of Jeff Keen, Queer Pagan Punk: Derek Jarman and This Is Now: Film and Video After Punk, the latter of which is currently touring internationally through LUX. He has written for The Guardian, Sight and Sound and Frieze and appeared on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, and also contributed chapters to Inside Out: Le Cinéma de Stephen Dwoskin and The Edge is Where the Centre: David Rudkin and Penda’s Fen (which he co-edited). He programmes the monthly BFI strand Essential Experiments and has since 2013 been the co-programmer of Experimenta in the London Film Festival. He regularly gives talks and presents films.
Biographic Note
William Fowler is a writer, film historian and musician. He is Curator of Artists’ Moving Image, BFI National Archive and the co-founder and co-programmer of The Flipside at BFI Southbank. His seasons and restoration projects at the BFI have included GAZWRX: the films of Jeff Keen, Queer Pagan Punk: Derek Jarman and This Is Now: Film and Video After Punk, the latter of which is currently touring internationally through LUX. He has written for The Guardian, Sight and Sound and Frieze and appeared on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, and also contributed chapters to Inside Out: Le Cinéma de Stephen Dwoskin and The Edge is Where the Centre: David Rudkin and Penda’s Fen (which he co-edited). He programmes the monthly BFI strand Essential Experiments and has since 2013 been the co-programmer of Experimenta in the London Film Festival. He regularly gives talks and presents films.
