Tatopoulos was born in Paris, where he lived until the age of 17. He began his studies at the Arts décoratifs de Paris ; the Arts Appliqués de Paris and the famous Beaux-Arts de Paris. Pursuing a career in the fine arts, he moved to Rome, where he spent three years before relocating to Athens.… Continue reading Patrick Tatopoulos
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Umberto Lenzi
Born in Massa Marittima, Italy on August 6, 1931. Lenzi started out as a journalist for local newspapers and magazines and abandoned his law studies to pursue the technical arts of filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale de Cinematografia. He continued afterwards working as a writer and film critic. Between 1961 and the early 90s, Lenzi… Continue reading Umberto Lenzi
Mick Garris
As a big fan of the BIFFF, Mick Garris joins our International Jury with great pleasure. He’s known as a director and producer of genre movies. Mick has created a TV programme called Fantasy Film Festival, in which he invites all the genre’s masters such as John Landis, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, Steven Spielberg or… Continue reading Mick Garris
Michael Ironside
1950, Toronto, Canada. Seasoned character actor with a devoted cult following who has starred in more than 120 films. Studied at the Ontario College of Art and the Canadian National Film Board. After working on numerous Canadian productions, he came to the forefront in Scanners, garnering a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Alexandra Stewart
Alexandra Stewart was born in Montreal in 1939 and went to Paris in 1958 to study art. After doing some publicity work as a model, she appears in her first feature film, The Motorcycle Cops. Her remarkable performance in Love is When You Make It by Pierre Kast is the start of a career among… Continue reading Alexandra Stewart
Richard Stanley
Richard Stanley, just like his great-grandfather, is a true globe-trotter, following his anthropologist mother as a kid. Exploring the globe had a big impact on his career. When he came back from Soviet occupied Afghanistan in 1990, he started working on his first movie: Hardware, a cyberpunk dystopia that won him a silver raven at… Continue reading Richard Stanley
Ryuhei Kitamura
Kitamura began his career by creating his film group Napalm Films when he returned to Japan after attending the School for Visual Arts in Australia. His debut action/horror film Down to Hell, which was produced with a staff of only 6 persons and $3,000 budget, won the Grand Prix at the first Indie Film Festival.… Continue reading Ryuhei Kitamura
Claude Pinoteau
Le silencieux (1972) started the career of French director Claude Pinoteau (° 1925). Pinoteau is known as a thorough professional, whose films are very successful. That was already the case with Le silencieux in the seventies and La septième cible in the eighties, both made with screenwriter Jean-Loup Dabadie and actor Lino Ventura. He became… Continue reading Claude Pinoteau
Christopher Lee
This gaunt, handsome, deep-voiced British actor is one of the icons of the horror film industry. With his imposing presence he has played many villainous roles, his most famous being the bloodthirsty Count Dracula opposite suave, aristocratic Peter Cushing as Professor Van Helsing in the Hammer horror films. The towering, sharp featured actor has also… Continue reading Christopher Lee
Brian Yuzna
Yuzna grew up in Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and Panama before he moved to the US in the eighties. Together with Julio Fernández he founded the Fantastic Factory in 2000, for which he produced horror and sci-fi films until last year. He is internationally known as one of the main supporters of the horrorgenre, and has… Continue reading Brian Yuzna