In Memory of John Dunning
September 23, 2011 
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It is with great sadness that we learned of John Dunning‘s passing earlier this week. A titan of Canadian independent filmmaking – his company with Andre Link, Cinepix, gave us Valerie, L’Initiation, Shivers, Rabid, Meatballs, My Bloody Valentine and more – Dunning had a drive and creative spark that brought Canadian cinema out of the didactic and onto the world cheap discount levitra stage. We had the great pleasure of being able to honour John Dunning and his partner Andre Link with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Fantasia this past summer, and although Dunning was too ill to attend the ceremony in person, we have attached here both the Cinepix Tribute video that screened at the ceremony, which features an exclusive interview with John, as well as the festival overview of days 7+8 that features footage of the ceremony itself. John’s passing is a tremendous loss to the film community and we only hope that other Canadian filmmakers and producers can learn from his example to carry on cialis prescription his remarkable legacy.
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Kier-La Janisse is a film writer and programmer, founder of Spectacular Optical Publications and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, co-founded Montreal microcinema Blue Sunshine, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (1999-2005) in Vancouver, was the Festival Director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid generic propecia online within canada Horror (2005). She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012) and contributed to Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film (Fantagraphics, 2011), Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington, 2014) The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (PS Press, 2017). She canada cialis no prescription co-edited (with Paul Corupe) and published the anthology books KID POWER! (2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She edited the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (forthcoming), and is currently co-authoring (with Amy Searles) the book ‘Unhealthy and Aberrant’: Depictions of Horror Fandom in Film and Television and co-curating (with Clint Enns) an anthology book on the films of Robert Downey, Sr., as well as writing a monograph about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter. She was a producer on Mike Malloy’s Eurocrime: the Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s and Sean Hogan’s We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea and her first film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is due out from Severin Films in 2020.
