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Born in Sacramento, California in 1966, Rick moved to Washington State with his family in 1976. He studied as the University of Washington, and graduated in 1989. He has been involved with many local Seattle bands, notably Ventilator and Dinsdale. His first acting and directing work was on Pickman's Model (2003). Call of Nature is the fourth film he's produced and the third he's written and directed.

Huan Vu is a director, producer, screenwriter, compositing editor and matte artist. His films include Damnatus, Joey ist dabei, and Mu. His most recent effort is Die Farbe, an adaptation of Lovecraft's The Color Our of Space.

Thomas Nicol is a software developer by profession, which finances his filmmaking passion. He developed the script for The Window Into Time with his long-time filmmaking cohort and friend, Ryan Collins. He lives in Champaign-Urbana, IL, where he currently heads up the local filmmaking community organization Champaign Movie Makers.

Syl Disjonk lives in an hypercube in the Montreal Interzone. He owns a Certification of Insanity from Arkham Asylum for his sleep terror disorder. He has been attacked by dark ones in his dreams since his childhood. He still goes through an art therapy to keep his mind in place.

He has made much progress in recent years and now manage to survive by using his skills in the field of graphic design and visual effects. Many of his personal artworks recall the universe of H.P. Lovecraft.

His latest short film Ethereal Chrysalis is based on his nightmares and his memories of the future. Read more

Robert P. Olsson has produced, written and directed his third Lovecraftian short called Fyren (Keeper of the Light) screening at this years HPLFF. His earlier efforts inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's work’s, 13:de mars 1941 (March the 13th, 1941) and Kammaren (A Legend Told), screened at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in 2005 and 2007. Read more

David was introduced H P Lovecraft and the world of Arkham House at the age of twelve and has continued collecting the genre to this day. His training and background is in fine art, but recently he has moved into illustration. He has done the covers for seven editions published by Hippocampus Press, and his work will soon appear as interior illustrations in editions by Centipede Press. Read more

Aaron Vanek was one of the first three filmmakers to screen a Lovecraft movie at the HPLFF in 1995. Since then, he has attended every festival but two, and made four other Lovecraftian adaptations, including Return to Innsmouth and Chambers' The Yellow Sign, both of which are distributed by Lurker Films. He is a proud recipient of a "Howie" award for his contributions to Lovecraft cinema, and hopes to keep the horror cosmic—this year, Vanek ran the first H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival® in Los Angeles featuring six of the earliest and best films from the past decade and a half of the Portland fest. Read more

Jason V Brock’s writing and art have been published Dark Scribe Press’s Butcher Knives & Body Counts [anthology]; Animal Magnetism [anthology]; Calliope; Ethereal Tales; San Diego Comic-Con International’s Souvenir Book and several other venues. He is Art Director/Managing Editor for Dark Discoveries Magazine. Jason co-edited the acclaimed anthology The Bleeding Edge with living legend William F. Nolan (showcasing work from Shirley, Matheson, Bradbury, Lansdale, Braunbeck, and others). He assists Mr. Nolan on various projects, such as the Bluewater Productions comics Logan’s Run: Last Day and Dark Universe. Read more

Thomas Ligotti comments on Joe Pulver's Blood Will Have Its Season -- "Some writers one admirers and others make one want to do as they do, or try. For me, Joe Pulver is of the latter type. His imagination is so vile so much of the time that it makes me giggle with amazement. And the prose so deadly visionary. I'm grateful that the pieces in this collection are those of a fellow horror writer who has raised the ante on what it means to be such a creature." - Thomas Ligotti