Contributors
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Maya Lussier-Seguin
Maya was born in Quebec in 1986 and is a graduate from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (Concordia University, Montreal) where she was introduced to documentary filmmaking by such inspirational directors as Martin Duckworth, Michael Snow and Pierre Falardeau. After completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2010, Maya moved to Paris, where she began her career as a production assistant with “What’s Up Films”. In 2014, she chose to focus on her creative career and participate in the production of historical documentaries of international scope for PBS: D-day’s Sunken Secrets, directed by Doug Hamilton and the six hour documentary series: The Great War, by Stephen Ives, which explores the American force’s role in WWI. Maya is also a dedicated swimmer of over 25 years and has met senior swimmers through her competitive career, which inspired her to make her first documentary film Swim for Life (Troisième nage). In 2015, she was selected by the Fondation de France to be the recipient of the Salavin-Fournier grant for young artists.
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Daniel Lynds
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Alessandra M. Pires
Alessandra M. Pires is Assistant Professor in French and Portuguese at Missouri State University. She holds a doctorate in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia and a D.E.A. in European Literatures and Cultures from the Université de Nice, France. Her current research addresses mourning and loss in French Quebec cinema as well as the notion of abjection in the works of Portuguese painter Paula Rego. Her research interests are the interface between Francophone and Luso-Brazilian literature and the visual arts, French and Quebec cinema, and psychoanalysis. She has co-edited and published a bilingual interdisciplinary book Images of Madness / Imagens da Loucura in 2010.
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Henry M. Taylor
Henry M. Taylor (*1965), Dr.phil., Research Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Zurich. He is the author of a book on biographical films (Rolle des Lebens. Die Filmbiographie als narratives System, Marburg: Schueren Verlag, 2002), and on Franco-Argentinian filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky (Der Krieg eines Einzelnen. Eine filmische Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte, Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 1995). Numerous lectures at the Universities of Konstanz (Germany), Zurich, and Lucerne (Switzerland). His current research deals with conspiracy culture and the paranoid thriller in film and television.
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Heather Macdougall
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James MacDowell
James MacDowell is the founder of the film review and criticism website Alternatetakes.co.uk, a site that attempts to bridge the gap between ‘high’ academic and ‘low’ journalistic film writing. He is a graduate of the University of Warwick, currently researching for his masters thesis on the Hollywood romance happy ending. His favourite filmmakers include Paul Thomas Anderson, Atom Egoyan, Lars Von Trier, Gus Van Sant and Spike Lee. He lives and works in Dublin.
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Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr.
Dr. Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. is an Associate Professor of Composition and Communication at SUNY Cobleskill in Upstate New York. He had written multiple book reviews, encyclopedia entries, and essays for a variety of journals, magazines, and books since 2006. He loves to read, watch movies, read, travel, and read.
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Kieran Macnamara
Kieran Macnamara is a musician and film editor who lives in Montreal. He has studied Literature, Cultural Studies and Music Theory at McGill University and screenwriting at a New York University exchange course held at University College Dublin. He has a Diplôme d’études professionnelles in Photography from Dawson College and graduated from Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema with a B.A. in Film Production in 2010.
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Luke Macy
Luke Macy is a 2024 graduate of Miami University with a bachelor of arts in journalism, film studies and American studies. He is an award-winning writer continuing his dream of being a film critic.
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Ryan Madson
Ryan Madson is a writer, urban planner, and professor of architecture at the Savannah College of Art & Design. He writes about art, cities and environments, and their intersections with futurity. His essays have been published in CLOT Magazine, Medium, Satellite, Sound of Life, Strelka Mag, and as chapters in books published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Mazyar Mahdavifar
Mazyar Mahdavifar is a California-based writer, journalist, and media producer. He is currently pursuing his MA degree in Film Studies at Chapman University. His academic interests include feminist film theory, national cinemas, and cinema of the Middle East.
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Tanya Maheshwari
Tanya Maheshwari is an MA student at Ambedkar University and is based out of Delhi. She is interested in suburban imageries and landscapes, media ecologies, and working class representations/materialist perspectives in film.
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Mustafa Mahmoud Yousry
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Edwin Mak
Edwin Mak is a London based writer and editor. He blogs at Nothing to be done, and contributes to The Auteurs’ Notebook, and Electric Sheep Magazine.
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Julian Malandruccolo
Julian Malandruccolo is a Montreal-based aspiring film critic and academic currently studying for his MA at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He has attended and covered festivals ranging from local (Fantasia, FNC, Cinemania) to international (Cannes).
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Santasil Mallik
Santasil Mallik is a writer and media artist pursuing his PhD from the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University, Canada. He completed his M.A. and M.Phil in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and his research interests concern questions around documentary media, political violence, decolonial theory, and curatorial practices. As a practitioner, he works with experimental film and video art.
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R. Tiara Malone
R. Tiara Malone is a Chicago born writer living in New Orleans. Her poetry has been published by Partial Press. Her stageplays have been read in Chicago, Atlanta, and New Orleans. Her essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner and Peauxdunque Review (forthcoming). Her essay “Mikey Go Boom!” was a runner-up in the 2020 Words and Music Festival. She studied Media, Communication, and Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She is currently working on a lyrical memoir and is the owner of Minimoon Massage Studio (@MinimoonMassage) in Nola.
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Charlotte Mancone
Charlotte is a Montreal-based writer, film researcher, and haunting enthusiast. She is currently completing her M.A. in Film and Moving Image studies at Concordia University.
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Benedetta Mancusi
Benedetta Mancusi is a Film and American studies graduate of the University of East Anglia and an aspiring author based in London. Her research interests include gender representation and pondering on the dilemma of multiculturalism.
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Setrag Manoukian
Setrag Manoukian is an Italian anthropologist of modern Iran. He wrote a book on history and poetry in Shiraz (City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran, Routledge 2011). He teaches at McGill University.
