Norbert Pfaffenbichler (Austria) lives in Vienna, Austria, where he works as an artist, filmmaker and curator. He is co-founder of VIDOK and Ianolin Studio and was involved in the Austrian abstract cinema which emerged in the 1990s. In 2002, he started working on his film series Notes on Film in which he deconstructs film history from an artistic view which he spices up with mathematical abstraction. He has been cooperating with several international film festivals and exhibitions such as the Vienna film festival, festivals of short films in Oberhausen, Tampere, Rotterdam, Vienna and others. In 2009 the VIS festival screened special programme for his work with Lotte Schreiber.

Bernadette Klausberger (Germany) is a producer, editor and festival manager. As a longtime staff member of the Berlin International Film Festival she has been responsible for the PR of the strands up-and-coming German cinema and international cinema for young audiences. As a producer she trained her skills at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. Since 2008, together with Niklas Hlawatsch she has produced more than 10 experimental, documentary and shorts of outstanding young directors. For Warner Bros. she served as a junior producer on the family adventure Ghosthunters – On Icy Trails. A special focus of Bernadette’s work lies on interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of art, education and politics. Bernadette lives and works in Berlin and loves the south.

Photo: Mercan Sümbültepe

Christoph Huber (Austria) is a Curator in the Program Department of the Austrian Film Museum, where he co-conceived several large retrospectives on genre cinema. Degree as DI of Physics at the Technical University of Vienna, afterwards film critic and arts editor for the daily paper Die Presse from 1999-2014, programmer on the side. European editor of the Canadian film magazine Cinema Scope. Contributions to countless other international magazines, books and homepages, co-author (with Olaf Möller) of books on Peter Kern and Dominik Graf. Ferronian.

Dr Russ Hunter (UK) is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television in the Department of Arts at Northumbria University in Newcastle. His research focuses on Italian genre cinema, European horror cinema and genre film festivals. He has published on a variety of aspects of Italian and European genre cinema and is the co-editor (with Stefano Baschiera) of Italian Horror Cinema (2016). He is currently writing a book on Italian giallo and horror director Dario Argento. He has published in numerous film encyclopaedias and reference guides and works closely with a number of European genre film festivals.

Dr Johnny Walker (UK) is Senior Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University in Newcastle. His books include, as author, Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (2015), and, as co-editor, Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond (2016). He is founding co-editor of Bloomsbury’s Global Exploitation Cinemas book series, sits on the editorial board of the Horror Studies series published by the University of Wales Press, and is soon to be Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project “Raising Hell: British Horror Film in the 1980s and 1990s”.

Polona Janežič (Slovenia) is a music composer, keyboardist and a big fan of films, who is constantly looking for a connection between different kinds of stories and music. Recently, she has been creating music for the theatre in collaboration with directors Ajda Valcl, Mare Bulc, Andrej Jus and Ivan Peternelj. She is a member of world music group Katalena, and has previously collaborated with Melodrom, Natriletno kolobarjanje s praho and Chris Eckman. Lately, she is mostly performing with Jelena Ždrale and representing Katalena’s latest album Kužne pesmi.

Elvis Homan (Slovenia) is a Slovenian drummer and composer living in Rotterdam. He embarked on his professional career as a member and band leader of Quartzite 4tet, Marco Apicella Trio, The Celestial Turkey, as well as developing his solo project with a focus on film music with which he has collaborated with the prominent International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). He has released 5 albums of original music and performs live at different festivals and venues, such as North Sea Jazz Festival, Otis Park Festival, Maas Theater, De Doelen, Tivoli Vredenburg, and others. As a composer he often collaborates with Big Band Krško and Symphonic Orchestra Novo mesto. Elvis also runs his booking agency Coxa Abstract, is a member of De BIM (Beroepsvereniging van Improviserende Musici), a producer at La Cueva Audio Production, and an educator at School Of Music Rotterdam.