SHORT BUS TO INSANITY FILM FESTIVAL
Mark "The Movieman" Krawczyk began reviewing movies since he attended James Madison High School in Milwaukee. While at UW- Stevens Point, he had a movie review show on the local campus TV station called the Final Cut. With the emergence of YouTube, Mark brought The Final Cut to the internet and has been posting episodes of the show, along with other video projects, ever since. Mark tries to bring his passion and excitement to his viewers. He covers b-movies to blockbusters in his fair and honest reviews. In the past 2 years, Mark has tried to bring focus to the growing independent horror industry and has featured a number of independent film makers on the show. He also does reviews for www.jedbundy.com and will start doing reviews for www.nerdglaze.com also. He can also be heard on recent episodes of the Astro Radio Z podcast. He doesn't mind if you agree or disagree with his reviews as long as you are entertained.
You can find Mark's videos at http://www.specialmarkproductions.com
Mark "The Movieman" Krawczyk
Andrew Shearer
Andrew Shearer is a director and film journalist keeping it weird in Athens, Georgia. His latest movies "Pajama Nightmare" and "Mondo Gonzo" are available at Amazon On Demand.
http://www.gonzoriffic.com, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1751788/ , http://www.facebook.com/gonzorifficfilms
Karen E. Pride, is the facilitator of the Chicago Independent Artists Network (CIAN), whose mission is to keep creative people in Chicago, WORKING in Chicago. The CIAN, which is a 6-year-old, free networking group, embraces people from ALL creative disciplines – acting; film making; music; art; real estate for events and filming locations; writing, cuisine – ANYTHING. The group meets on the second Tuesday of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Illinois Center for Broadcasting (ICB), 530 N. State St. at Harrison.
Pride’ professional background includes stints in Broadcast News at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles; WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee and the Chicago Defender in Chicago, where she worked as a research/assignment editor; and reporter.
You can contact Pride at ciankaren@gmail.com or on the CIAN Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chicago-Independent-Artists-Network/75250736040.
Karen E. Pride
Patrik Karlsson
Patrik Karlsson is a native of Sweden who became a life long horror fan after watching 'Jaws' in the early 80's.
He is the founder & operator of the Independent Horror website www.monsterdiggare.net He can also be found on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Monsterdiggare/276130112522292
Mitchell Wells
"Head Freak in Charge of Horror Society. Self proclaimed Horror Movie Freak, Tech Geek, love indie films and all around nice kinda guy!! "
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/92800622232/
Website: http://www.horrorsociety.com/
Jessica Gallant is an award winning Los Angeles based cinematographer who hails from Cleveland Ohio, where she got her start filming local punk bands in the 80's. She later moved to Los Angeles to attend film school and graduated from Columbia College with a perfect 4.0 GPA and B.A. in Cinema.
Since graduation, Jessica has shot 23 feature films and three feature length documentaries. Jessica is probably best known for her work on the award winning independent features THE PLAYAZ COURT (featured Kodak's In Camera magazine), TOM'S WIFE (of which Variety said "Jessica Gallant's color lensing is exceptional) along with the cult favorites RODDENBERRY ON PATROL (featuring many Star Trek and Star Trek Voyager alumni) and the short lived punk themed TV series OBLIVION.
In 2003, Jessica was one of six female DPs selected to speak at a Kodak/Power Up panel on women behind the camera. Jessica has written articles on independent filmmaking for the British magazine Showreel, taught digital cinematography at her alma mater, and for 16 years has been an Administrator for the SMPTE and FBKSTS award winning CML (www.cinematography.net). http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002680/
Jessica Gallant
Sal Lizard an actor/comic/film producer/published author who has been in several dozen films (mostly Indies and mostly horror genre). Personal appearances include: the All-Night Flea Market (Chicago area), Horrorhound (Indianapolis and Columbus, OH), Shock Stock (London, ON), ScareFest (Lexington, KY), Con-tamination (St Louis, MO), to name but a few.
Since 2003, he's appeared in over three dozen movies. He produced the haunted house film, NEXT DOOR (2010), and "THE LAST EXIT" (to be released in 2013) . He was in a featured role in HOOKED (to be released in 2013) and is attached to upcoming films "LONGWOOD" and "FEEDING ON FEAR".
He is also a professional Santa who typically appears as his most popular and demanded character, "the Vampire Santa", and recently co-authored his book "BEING SANTA CLAUS". As Santa, Sal has appeared in interviews across the nation, was featured on AOL's website, in USA Today, on Fox and Friends and On the Today show's Christmas Special.
http://actorsal.com , http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1796602/ , http://www.facebook.com/actorsal , http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Vampire-Santa/216984991683459