Page 11 - Alternative Europe Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945

MARCELLE PERKS is an postgraduate student in Media Studies and lectures at Hanover University.
An avid horror film fan, she has been contributing to genre magazines since 1992 and is a regular
contributor to US magazine Fangoria. She has contributed to The BFI Companion to Horror, British
Horror Cinema, Gothic Lifestyle and currently writes for www.kamera.co.uk, The Guardian online and
Gay Times. She is currently writing her first novel and hoping to develop her interest in virology.

TUOMAS RISKALAl IN been director of programming at the Espoo Cine International Film Festival
since 2000. He is also one of the main editors of the leading Finnish film magazine, Hohto, and a
contributor to many other film-related media publications and television productions in Finland.
He has been a member of the international juries at Fantasporto: Oporto International Film Festival
in Portugal, Fantastisk Film Festival in Sweden, Neuchltel International Fantastic Film Festival in
Switzerland and the New Visions jury at Sitges Internacional Festival de Cinema de Catalunya.
ADAM RODGERS is a freelance filmmaker as well as being a film researcher currently based at the
Cult Film Archive. Having graduated with a degree in Digital Film Production he has worked on
projects for the B B C and H T V and regularly contributes to assignments for independent production
companies based in Yorkshire and the Midlands. Adam recently undertook the research behind the
documentary Cabin Fever: Fear Today, Horror Tomorrow, and is currently developing a series of short
dramas around a variety of contemporary social and moral themes.

CHRISTINA ST0JAN0VA is an academic, curator and writer focusing on cultural semiotics and
historical representation in Central and Eastern European cinema, interwar German cinema and the
cinema of Quebec. She teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada.

DIRK VAN EXTERGEM is one of the organisers/programmers of the Brussels International
Festival of Fantastic Film. He studied Communication and Cultural Sciences at the Free University
of Brussels. Already seven years working for the Festival, he stood at the founding of the Festival's
parallel section, 'the 7th Orbit', which he now supervises. He is also a regular collaborater with the
Cinema Nova collective.