Richard Badley is a freelance entertainment journalist and web designer based in Brighton and examples of his work can be found at reelcitizen.co.uk. He also desperately tries to find time to write screenplays.
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Robert Barry is a freelance journalist and composer, based in London. He has authored (or co-authored) chart-breaking pop hits and short film soundtracks while writing about horror films, slapstick comedy, opera and electronic music. He is also very partial to Middle-Eastern cookery and collects tube maps and other travel ephemera. Read his blog.
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John Berra is an Associate Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University and the author of Declarations of Independence: American Cinema and the Partiality of Independent Production, a study of the cultural and commercial impact of alternative cinema in the United States. When not finding an excuse to wander out for a coffee and a danish pastry, he contributes to Scope and Film International, and is currently writing a book about autonomy and identity in contemporary film, with reference to current world cinema directors.
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Emily Bick
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Adam Bingham completed his doctorate on Japanese cinema in 2008, producing a thesis entitled Kitano Takeshi: Authorship, Genre and Stardom in Japanese Cinema. He has written for CineAction, Cineaste, Sight and Sound, Electric Sheep, Senses of Cinema, Asian Cinema and Screen. His particular areas of interest and research are post-war Japanese documentaries, the Japanese new wave director Yoshida Kiju, transnational genre and Hong Kong cinema, and Eastern European cinema.
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Caroline Blinder: Following the old adage that those who can't write teach, Caroline is a lecturer in American Literature at Goldsmiths. She has previously taught on crime cinema and American photography and documentary practice from the 1930s and onwards. She has written on Henry Miller, Georges Bataille, James Agee and other politically suspect figures, and hopes to continue to do so.

Mark Bould is Reader in Film and Literature and the University of the West of England and co-editor of Science Fiction Film and Television. His books include Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City, Parietal Games: Critical Writings By and On M. John Harrison,The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction, Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction and Neo-Noir. He is currently writing The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction and The Routledge Film Guidebook: Science Fiction.

Ben Cobb is Editor-at-Large of Wonderland magazine and the author of Anarchy and Alchemy: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Creation Books). He released his debut feature film Banshee in 2003.
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Jessica Dickenson made her directorial debut at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam 2004 where her short film Manthrax, a re-edited spoof highlighting the homoerotic undertones apparent in the sport of bodybuilding, was screened. Jess then spent almost three years travelling in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. When she returned in 2007, she made Helmut’s House from the footage collected during her travels. Screened for the first time in July 2009, the film was compared by BBC Radio 4's Francine Stock to Herzog’s early short films. Jess has just finished her first feature-length film The Dust Never Settles, further developing a unique visual language that transcends the conventions of traditional documentary.
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Nick Dutfield works for one of the UK's beleaguered entertainment retail companies. During the early weeks of 2007 he used his influence to propel the Rocky Story soundtrack CD into the outer outskirts of the national album charts. He occasionally claims to have invented berets and Stephen Hunt.
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Evrim Ersoy is a freelance journalist based in London. For the past five years he has been working as the London Correspondent for independent US news portal Monsters & Critics as well as contributing various features and interviews to UK publications such as Film & Festivals and Electric Sheep Magazine. He is also the co-founder and director of The Duke Mitchell Film Club which runs monthly at The Cross Kings in Kings Cross and has been described as a monthly night dedicated to unearthing the most abstruse and deranged of cinematic marginalia by Time Out. Evrim worships film and looks forward to the day when he can dedicate his every waking hour to write and talk about the subject without ever having to dealing with the annoying minutiae of life.
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James B Evans is a Canadian-born, long-time UK resident who writes on film and visual culture for periodicals that include Cinema Scope, Kunsthandverk, AN magazine, Art Aurea and the occasional academic journal. He lectures at the University of Brighton, the University of Sussex and the University of the Arts, London, where he holds forth upon, among other topics, representations of the artist in cinema, bohemianism in the history of ideas, Hollywood history, British national cinema, and troubled teen, drug and juvenile delinquency films. He fervently believes in John Cage's statement, ‘I'm saying nothing and I'm saying it’.
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Eithne Farry
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Alexander Godfrey once worked on a soap magazine and ironically still feels dirty. After finishing his degree in film and some other stuff he now works for The Times Online.

Paul Gravett: Acknowledged by The Times as 'the greatest historian of the comics and graphic novel form in this country', Paul Gravett is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster about international comics, director of the Comica Festival in London and co-director of Escape Books. This year he is also curating exhibitions about Tove Jansson's Moomins, Jack Kirby, comics from Argentina and interactive and installational 'Hypercomics'.
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Peter Hames is a programme advisor to the London Film Festival and research associate at Staffordshire University. He is author of Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition, The Czechoslovak New Wave, and editor of The Cinema of Central Europe, The Cinema of Jan Švankmajer, and Cinemas in Transition (with Catherine Portuges). He is a member of the editorial board of Studies in Eastern European Cinema.
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Jim Harper is a freelance film critic and writer with a passion for cult and cinema from around the globe. He is the author of several books, including Legacy of Blood: A Comprehensive Guide to Slasher Movies, Flowers from Hell: The Modern Japanese Horror Film and the forthcoming Dark Dreams: The World of Anime Horror. He is also a contributor to two volumes in Intellect’s pioneering Directory of World Cinema series. Currently Jim writes articles, essays, reviews and liner notes for anyone who will publish them, and requires at least two espressos to get up to working speed each morning.

Jeff Hilson: When he’s not on study leave Jeff Hilson teaches Creative Writing at Roehampton University. He’s a poet whose most recent publication is stretchers (Reality Street Editions, 2006). He is currently writing a prose poem sequence on British birds and compiling an anthology of experimental sonnets which will be published, again by Reality Street, later in the year. When he’s not writing he runs Crossing the Line, a monthly poetry reading series in Central London.
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Paul Huckerby: Although cruelly limited to a mere seven and half hours of television a day by his bookish parents Paul nonetheless developed an obsession with the moving image. He studied film and television at university and has appeared on BBC1’s Animal Hospital with his sick cat, Barbara.
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Joel Karamath
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Greg Klymkiw has been a film critic, film buyer, art cinema programmer, screenwriter and producer of numerous feature films including Guy Maddin’s Archangel and Careful, Cynthia Roberts’s The Last Supper, the controversial porn satire Bubbles Galore (which holds the record for the most references in Canada’s Parliamentary House Sittings when The National Post ran the front page headline ‘Lesbian Porn Funded By Canadian Government’) and numerous other iconoclastic works. In addition to his tireless efforts as Marketing Director of the Winnipeg Film Group, he has, for the past 12 years, served as the Producer-in-Residence at Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre where he has taught and mentored hundreds of young filmmakers. He is currently writing three screenplays and a book on screenwriting. He has, at last count, seen over 30,000 feature films.
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Pat Long
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Eleanor McKeown
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James Merchant studied his little heart out at Goldsmiths College, from which he graduated in 2006. He is now the Assistant Producer of London’s Raindance Film Festival, which runs annually in October. One of his many tasks includes letting over 1000 filmmakers know that their films haven’t made it into the festival, but he makes up for this apparent lack of compassion by writing candidly about films he actually likes. One day he hopes to write a feature of his own.
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Siouxzi Mernagh: Siouxzi is a film writer and filmmaker and was the Festival Coordinator for the Sydney Underground Film Festival in 2007. Her most recent ventures include a 10-mins David Lynch inspired 16mm short titled Third Eye Open and two new shorts on the way titled Swallow My Pride and The Dangers. A few years back, Siouxzi also wrote and directed two award-winning 16mm shorts, Two White Lines (a Natural Born Killers inspired mini road movie), and Jet Black (an experimental horror piece shot in her haunted house). She has also written a feature-length screenplay (an experimental road movie) and a novel about a young filmmaker researching for a horror film in Iceland, White Tales.
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Peter Momtchiloff is editor for philosophy books at Oxford University Press. He has played guitar in many bands, including Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research, the Would-be-goods, and Scarlet's Well.
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Frances Morgan
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Alexander Pashby always wanted to be an actor. That is, until he went to work as an assistant in Hollywood and saw how little acting has to do with making movies. Now he writes about film for mymovies.net and their partners (MSN, Orange, Lycos, etc.). He's also a regular contributor to obsessedwithfilm.com and Little White Lies.
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Brad Prager
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Mark Pilkington runs Strange Attractor Press and edits Strange Attractor Journal. He has written for numerous magazines and anthologies in the UK and USA. A collection of his weird science columns for the Guardian newspaper, Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge is available now. His first full-length book, Mirage Men, was written in 2009.
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James Rose
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Jack Sargeant
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Matthew Sheret is a freelance writer based in London. He has worked as an editor and copywriter for Last.fm, Newspaper Club, ditto.tv and Men’s Health Online, has contributed to Plan B Magazine, Solipsistic Pop and Electric Sheep Magazine and writes a column for Global Comment. His personal projects have seen him taking on roles that include journalist, web-hack, curator, market trader, teacher, student, critic, photographer, DJ, editor, and publisher, often at the same time. In 2008 he co-founded We Are Words + Pictures, a team who create comic-book-themed events and workshops promoting the UK small press. He can be found at matthewsheret.com.

Mark Stafford is still cartoonist in residence at the cartoon museum, and is currently working on book two of Cherubs! with Bryan Talbot, promotional art for the Circus of Horrors and a series of paintings of dead hillbillies. Check out Hocus-baloney.com
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Kate Taylor
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Stephen Thomson: Embracing academia like a lost puppy, Stephen has taught at the University of Reading for a decade. His PhD at the Uni of Glasgow was on children's literature, educational theory and social control, but work since has been on Derrida, Flaubert, Beckett, and others. Currently working on a book on sleepwalking.
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Lindsay Tudor is studying for a degree in film but hopes to one day run her own cinema where you can see great films for £1. She is also currently co-writing a script that will undoubtedly become the best British film since Billy Elliot.
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Lisa Williams’s dream was to be like Patricia Franchini, reporting from the parlour to the gutter of Godard’s Paris. Now here she is in London, reporting on school fêtes and health scares by day, and strange films and music by night.
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Philip Winter was born in South Wales in June 1962, he has served in the Royal air Force as a pilot and has been in a St.John's ambulance as a patient. For fun he occasionally works on building sites. In December 2006 his debut novel Denim For A Solo Leg was published by Ampersand & Ampersand. For money, Winter produces mediocre announcements for in-store public address systems and writes tepid, weak-tea articles for The Guardian and The South Wales Argus. Presently he is completing his second novel Yeti Necrotic, due to be published by Hodder & Stoughton in Winter (of course). Philip Winter likes a drink, if you meet him buy him a stout! Philip Winter marvels at banality and has no freckles.
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Jason Wood is a film programmer, contributor to Sight and Sound and The Guardian and the author of several film books including The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema and 100 Road Movies.
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