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My name is Jennifer Stone and I am a Independent Horror actress, director, writer and producer in Dallas, Texas.

What is it that attracts you the horror genre for your chosen field of creative work?
I have always loved horror films from a young age. I grew up watching them every Friday night with my mother and Aunt and my love only crew further as I became an adult and ventured into filmmaking with my partner Abel Berry. Practical 80s style effects are definitely where I get the most passion and try to show my love from past films in our own way.

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I’m Sarah French, an actress based out of Studio City, CA. I grew up in the Midwest. I spent a portion of my childhood growing up on a farm. I think that’s where my love for entertaining came from. We didn’t have computers, cell phones or cable TV. We had to be creative to entertain ourselves. I loved putting on plays for friends and family. As a teenager I found friends that were into what I was into and we all made short horror films together. I went to school for criminal justice but couldn’t escape my love of film, so I chose to focus on that. I’m a huge horror fan and love metal music. I enjoy hiking and being out in nature.

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My name is Whitney Modesta Collazo, I’m a home grown North Carolina Native with roots from Mexico. I’m an artist, makeup artist, screen writer, contributing writer to Gruesome Magazine as well as a co-host for Gruesome’s Decades of Horror: Classic Era podcast.

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Oh, hello Cinema Crazed! My name is Julie Bruns, and I am an actor, director and writer. I’ve been keeping busy with the festival run of my short The Purgamentum, which is an eco-horror short set in the Pacific Northwest. Amy, a marine biologist, starts to hear strange whisperings through the underwater microphones of her remote research station, and calls in Stan, a diver, to investigate what is happening beneath the surface. It’s a dark little tale of retali-ocean.

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Hi! My name is Hannah May Cumming, I’m a horror director and co-founder of the feminist horror collective, Monstrous Femme Films. I directed, produced, and co-wrote the neo-giallo short Fanatico, now streaming on ALTER, and I wrote, co-directed and co-produced the summer camp creature featurette, Camp Calypso. My work is very femme-centric, retro inspired and campy.

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Hello! Please introduce yourself.
Hi Emile! Thank you for asking me to be part of this series!

My name is Reyna “Chainsaw Queen” Velarde and I started performing at age 4 in a musical production of Pinocchio as a ballerina. In ballet class, I always wanted to play the evil characters which started while playing “angels vs. devils”. Of course, I wanted to be the devil!

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