2018 BARRY CONVEX JURY

There are 10 features in competition for levitra super the 2018 Barry Convex Award, which will be given out at the Fantasia International Film Festival. The jury for the 2018 Award are:

KJ thumbKier-La Janisse
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer and programmer, the founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and Owner/Artistic Director of Spectacular Optical. She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films, and co-edited/published the books KID POWER!, Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s, Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television and Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin. She is currently writing a book about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter.

Rowan-Legg profile picShelagh Rowan-Legg
Shelagh Rowan-Legg is a critic, festival programmer, and filmmaker. She is a contributing editor for ScreenAnarchy and a critic for Sight & Sound. She programs for FrightFest, the UK’s largest genre festival. Her book The Spanish Fantastic: Contemporary Filmmaking in Horror, Fantasy & Sci Fi was published in 2016. Her shorts films Measure and Flow have screened at dozens of festivals around the world, winning numerous awards.

IMG_5275Michael Kronish
Award winning Executive Producer Michael Kronish was most recently the Executive Vice President of VICE Media’s Canadian studio’s inception in 2014 until Mid 2018. Michael was the architect of the studio start-up in Toronto that has to date, produced over 150 hours of premium documentaries, factual series, specials, digital videos, town halls and VICE’s first foray into scripted television. Some of Michael’s credits include Netflix’ feature doc, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, the Sundance premiering, award winning doc series RISE, Director X’s Mister Tachyon, Michael Dowse’s TV adaptation of the cult classic FUBAR and the genre bending, Matt Johnson-helmed sitcom, Nirvanna The Band The Show. In 2018, his studio was nominated for 13 Canadian Screen Awards and won three, for Terror, RISE and Abandoned. The studio has canadian viagra 50mg also won several digital awards in both English and French.

Nora-LopoNora Mehenni
Strong from years of experience in various tech roles within the distribution industry, working with and for top boutique labels, first in France and in the UK for over a decade, Nora has now been at the helm of Arrow Video’s Quality Control Department for nearly canadian needs a prescription in us 4 years. She’s also the technical advisor for INIODYMUS – a female-run consultancy agency supporting emerging talents wishing to enter the genre festival circuit.