Fabrice Lambot
Producer & director, Paris, France

Fabrice Lambot is a Metalunian, co founder of Metaluna Productions with his friend Jean-Pierre Putters (founder of the magazine Mad Movies). Metaluna Productions has just produced The Theatre Bizarre, a horror anthology shot in collaboration with Severin Films. Founded in 2007, Metaluna Productions has also produced the long film Dying God (directed by Fabrice Lambot himself, after his short movies Insanity and Le Sang du châtiment), the documentary Marvel 14: Superheroes Against Censorship and several short movies including Mandragore and Dolorosa. Fabrice is actually developing the next films of Douglas Buck, Elias E. Merhige and Buddy Giovinazzo.

Musician & deviant cinephile , London, United Kingdom

Born in 1963, Stephen Thrower first became involved in music with the group Possession before joining the legendary Coil. With them he recorded the - unreleased - soundtrack of the film Hellraiser by Clive Barker and scored The Angelic Conversation by Derek Jarman. In 1999 he co-founded the group Cyclobe. Meanwhile, as a fan of US exploitation and Eurotrash he created Eyeball magazine, and published the books Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci (1999) and Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents (2007).

Curator & festival director, Tokyo, Japon

Born in 1972 in Tokyo, Koyo Yamashita has been the festival director of Image Forum Festival since 2001. He is also the programmer of the theater Image Forum in Shibuya (Tokyo) since 2005. He has been guest programmer for many film and media art festivals and film events in and outside Japan, such as: Transmediale (Berlin), Norwegian Short Film Festival (Grimstad), 25 Hrs (Barcelona), Kaohsiung Film Festival (Kaohsiung), Seoul Fringe Festival (Seoul). He also curated the DVD compilation of Japanese emerging independent animation artist 典Hinking and Drawing - 2001.

Director, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Born in 1975 in Neuchâtel, he has developped an interest in genre cinema ever since the shock provoked by The Fly at the age of 14. After several attempts to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark in VHS-C and a passage at the Ecole de Commerce, he decided to take the courses of the London Film School. Freshly graduated, he works as an editor and director of short films. In 2008 he directed Dead Bones, a western horror fiction that went all around the world. He has just completed Employé du mois, awarded at the 2011 edition of the NIFFF. He is currently working on his first feature film, Stresseurs, and a feature film version of Dead Bones. Meanwhile he dreams of making a film with Dakota Fanning and Vin Diesel.

Artist, Lausanne, Switzerland

An ECAL graduate since 2003 and founding member of the multidisciplinary group Körner Union, he is currently working in tandem with Sami Benhadj. Together they are developping a complex art work that combines photography, film, sculpture and performance. Tarik Hayward also has a rich and varied experience in broadcasting. Having taught video, he worked in various business environments from video to commercials and has directed short films as well as numerous experimental videos.

Writer, Les Moulins, Switzerland

Lilian Schiavi is a successful author. In 2006, an important test for theories of the image (Spectre-Chair) leads him to attempt a university push; he goes into exile in Courbet’s footsteps. As a lifeguard, he believes that every undrowned life is a saved life. As a wrecked man or as a writer, he addresses the sea. Embarked, he currently "drifts" on Les déferlements de l’image making a situationist of himself.