Contributors
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Kathy Ou
Kathy Ou (she/her) is a freelance journalist and nonfiction filmmaker. Born and raised in the southern coastal city Shenzhen, China, Kathy moved to the likewise hot and sunny Los Angeles in 2018 to attend Occidental College. She graduated in May, 2022 with a dual degree in Philosophy and Media Arts and Culture, and is moving to New York City in fall 2023 for graduate school. She loves documentaries in general, but can be as easily excited by an epic historical drama as by a good revenge play. She writes to channel her obsessions and hopes to write more for fun and the love and support of independent films and documentaries.
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Nour Ouayda
Nour Ouayda is a film director. She also works as an editor and writes about cinema. She is currently pursuing a research around drifting and cinema.
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Pierre Pageau
Pierre Pageau is a retired film teacher (Collège Ahuntsic and Université de Montréal). Pageau currently works as a film journalist (writing regularly for the French film magazine Séquences) and hosts a weekly (Friday) radio show on Radio Centre-Ville. He has published many articles, mostly on film history, and provided research for two movies on Mack Sennett. His publications include Chronologie du cinéma au Québec (with Yves Lever, 2006), and Les salles de cinema au Québec, 1898-2008 (2009). His most recent book is a follow-up to the latter book, on movie theatres of the south-west region of Montreal, Les Salles de Cinéma Dans le Sud-Quest: 1898-1982.
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Anna Pakkala
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Adeline Panamaroff
Adeline Panamaroff is a freelance writer located in Edmonton, Alberta. Her work has appeared on Anime News Network, StarTrek.com, Yatta Tachi, among others. She enjoys writing about the little details in horror movies, manga and anime, things that may escape the casual observer.
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Manisha Pandit
Manisha Pandit is a MPhil in Media Studies and is doing her PhD in Health Communication at Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala, India. She has also taught at Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal.
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Radina Papukchieva
Radina Papukchieva is currently doing her Master’s in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, Canada. She completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Communication and Cultural Studies in 2014 and works as a Dubbing Coordinator for Les Films Séville. A self-proclaimed cinéphile, Radina’s film reviews have also been published in The Montreal Mirror and Cult Mtl.
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Benjamin Paquette
Benjamin (B. P.) Paquette is a filmmaker and academic. His debut feature film as producer, writer and director was the international award-winning and critically-acclaimed A Year In the Death of Jack Richards (2004). While his second film The Woman of Ahhs will be released later this year, he is currently in post-production on his third film Casting Fidelity and in pre-production on his fourth film The Anonymous Rudy S. From 2001 to 2005, he was both a teacher and the Director of the Film and Television Production Program at Trebas Institute, a private college in Montreal, QC. He continues to teach part-time while he completes his Doctorate degree in Film Studies at the Université de Montréal (Montreal, QC). His academic credentials already include Master and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees (both a Major in Film Production) from Concordia University (Montreal, QC).
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Shahin Parhami
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Charles Parisé
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Isaac Parkinson
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Kajal Parmar
Kajal Parmar is doing her PhD on Teenage Pregnancy and Behaviour Change Communication at Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala, India. Before joining a full time research program, she worked as a freelance journalist with The Statesman.
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Sophie Pascal
Montreal born Sophie Pascal is a freelance writer who has featured artists and the ethno-cultural entertainment industry for the past ten years. Now focusing on cinema, she has a bent for offbeat, culturally diverse, and socially relevant film productions. She has lived in Western Canada and in the United States, and publishes in both French and English.
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Leila Passandideh
Leila Passandideh was born on Feb 13, 1983 in Tehran, Iran. In 2004 she received a “FCE” degree in “Farzanegan English Institute” where she studied English for 5 years. In 2008 she achieved a bachelor degree in “French Translation” at Alzahra University. In 2012 she received a Masters Degree in French Education from Azad University. Since 2009 she has worked as a Commercial Expert in several Industrial and manufacturing companies. Concurrently, working as a French and English translator mainly in the field of cinema as an assistant to Mr. Amir Ganjavie.
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Martial Pastor
Martial Pastor is a French student completing his bachelor in Computer Science at Concordia University. Pastor arrived in Montreal from Paris in 2015 and started studying film in 2016. Some of his recent interest in film studies include feminist film theory, horror aesthetics and the correlation between the two.
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Frederick Pelletier
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Angel Leonardo Peña
Angel Leonardo Peña is a freelance movie critic and screenwriter currently residing in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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Mark Penny
Mark Penny is a Concordia University Cinema Graduate who is presently employed in Instructional Technology at a Canadian University, and is a Hammer films scholar extraordinaire.
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Rodney Perkins
Rodney Perkins is a writer based in the United States.
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Anis Pervez
Anis Pervez is a film researcher academically trained in Media and Communication, Information and Film Studies, and Sociology respectively from Dhaka University, Indiana University Bloomington and Oslo University. Pervez has served several organizations in Bangladesh, USA, and Norway as a film and media teacher, researcher, journalist, and consultant. He has published on film and information in different academic journals and a book on film theory titled Information, reception and film: A reader-response analysis of Rashomon. At present Pervez is researching on cybernetic film theory.
