Contributors
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Adèle Flannery
Adèle Flannery, graduated from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in 2010 with a specialization in Film Studies. Following her undergraduate degree, she completed a Master’s of Information Studies at McGill University. She has worked as a liaison librarian at l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) since 2013. Her passion for film has not wained; she is an active user of the library’s audiovisual collection.
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Vanessa Dion Fletcher
Vanessa Dion Fletcher is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. Her work is a process of investigating the influence of culture and politics on the relationship between our bodies and the land. In 2012 She co-curated Emnowaangosjig || Coming Out: The Shifting and Multiple Self at the Toronto Free Gallery. Twisting Conventions: A Feminist Indigenous Perspective on the Horror was written as part of the Vtape curatorial fellowship. Dion Fletcher is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Art in Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Marie-Eve Fortin
Marie-Eve Fortin is a Ph. D. graduate in Film studies and Arts and Media from Université de Montréal and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 respectively. Her thesis entitled Satirical parodies and documentary expressionism : the critical representation of the celebrity in the films of William Klein, analyses the use of celebrities by power structures as ideological vectors to influence the masses. Marie-Eve’s research interests also include the representation of occult arts and sciences in Sub-Saharan West-African cinema. Marie-Eve taught Documentary Cinema at Université de Montréal and Independent American Filmmakers of the 1980s and 1990s at Concordia University. She participated in a number of international conferences and film festivals including FESPACO in Burkina Faso, Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland and recently the Cannes Film Festival in France. She also curated the film retrospective and photography exhibition entitled: William Klein : The dissident eye presented at the Cinémathèque québécoise during the New Cinema Film Festival.
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Sarah Foulkes
Sarah Foulkes is a filmmaker, cultural worker, and film critic working in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
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John Fucile
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Robert Fuoco
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Jamie Gaetz
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Simon Galiero
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Sandra Gallant
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Patrick Galvan
Patrick Galvan is a freelance film journalist who specializes in Japanese and early Chinese cinema. His articles, which include analyses of individual films as well as comprehensive retrospectives on the careers of certain artists, have appeared in online publications such as SYFY WIRE, Toho Kingdom, and Our Culture Mag. He’s also contributed to The Lost Films Fanzine and is the author of the book Ruan Lingyu: Her Life and Career (2022).
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Amir Ganjavie
Fascinated by the issue of alternative and utopian space in cinema and architecture, Amir Ganjavie has published widely about cinema, architecture and cultural studies. He has recently co-edited a special volume on alternative Iranian cinema for Film International and edited Humanism of the Other, an essay collection on the Dardenne brothers (in Persian). His most recent contribution is an article on the meaning of space and utopia in cinema by analysing the films of Tsai Ming-Liang.
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Greta Gard
Greta Gard is a graduate from the University of Oxford with a Masters in Film Aesthetics. Her research interests include psychedelic cinema, a contemporary renaissance in the horror genre and aesthetics of beauty, representation and girlhood. She currently works behind the scenes on the “Girls on Film” podcast, reviewing films from a female perspective.
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Daniel Garrett
Daniel Garrett, a child of the American south, Louisiana, where he grew up reading, taking photographs, and enjoying fishing and a good summer barbecue. Daniel moved to New York and became a graduate of the New School for Social Research, was an intern at Africa Report, poetry editor for the male feminist magazine Changing Men, founded and acted as principal organizer of the Cultural Politics Discussion Group at ABC No Rio and Poets House, wrote about painter Henry Tanner for Art & Antiques, and organized the first interdepartmental environmental justice meeting at Audubon. Long interested in human complexity, intelligence, experiment, and cultural diversity, Garrett has researched various cultures, and he wrote about fiction and poetry for World Literature Today and international film for Offscreen, and has done music reviews that constitute a history of popular music for The Compulsive Reader. His work has appeared as well in The African, All About Jazz, American Book Review, Black Film Review, Cinetext, Contact II, Film International, The Humanist, Hyphen, Illuminations, Muse Apprentice Guild, Option, Pop Matters, Quarterly Black Review of Books, Rain Taxi, Red River Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Wax Poetics. He returned to the south, where he worked on philosophical fiction, the novel A Stranger on Earth.
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Dorothy Geller
Dorothy Geller is an active avant/experimental musician based in Montreal who explores trauma and pathos for creative expression. She received her PhD in 2007 from the George Washington University and is currently a Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University where she is revising her dissertation into a manuscript that links concepts of informal and unpaid labor in materialist feminism to musical work.
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David George Menard
David George Menard is a Polymath Physicist and Filmmaker, a Physics MSc graduate from the University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN. David went to work for Martin Marietta Missiles Systems, the Electro-Optics Division, in Orlando Florida. Unfortunately, circa 1990, the Soviet Union collapsed and many scientists lost their jobs. So he began a new career in filmmaking, attending the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, graduating with a MFA in film production in 2010. After which, he moved to Los Angeles and began writing screenplays, continuing to do so while promoting “Termite Cat Productions, Ltd.”
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Zina Giannopoulou
Zina Giannopoulou is an Associate Professor of Classics and an Affiliate of European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She has published extensively on comparative classicisms, Plato, and the intersection between literature/film and philosophy. She is currently finishing a monograph on adaptations of Plato’s allegory of the Cave in twentieth-century literature and film.
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Philip Gillett
Philip Gillett is an independent writer on film and author of The British Working Class in Postwar Film (MUP, 2003), Movie Greats: A Critical Study of Classic Cinema (Berg, 2008), a re-examination of the film canon, Film and Morality (CSP, 2012) and Forgotten British Film: Value and the Ephemeral in Postwar Cinema (CSP, 2017), and Film and the Historian: The British Experience (CSP, 2019).
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Alexandra Gillie-Hardy
Alexandra Gillie-Hardy is currently completing her undergraduate degree in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema with Concordia University. Originally from Toronto, she moved to Montreal to pursue her interest in Film and has since been able to develop a deeper understanding of cinema. She hopes to continue her studies in film and begin a Master’s Degree once finishing her undergrad.
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Sean Gilman
Sean Gilman is a writer based in Tacoma, Washington. He’s the founder and editor of Seattle Screen Scene, host of The George Sanders Show and the They Shot Pictures podcast and writes at The End of Cinema. He’s written for Movie Mezzanine, the MUBI Notebook and InReview Online.
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Philippe Girard
