commissioning editors

Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc are authors, broadcasters and film critics and the editors of www.kamera.co.uk. They have co-authored books about Studio Ghibli, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Horror Films, John Carpenter, Jackie Chan and Vampire Films and contributed to The International Film Guide, Wallflower Press's Alter Image and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy as well as a number of online and print journals. They are regular contributors to BBC Coventry and Warwickshire radio. They can be contacted at colinandmitchkamera@googlemail.com
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Yoram Allon is editorial director of Wallflower Press, specialist publishers of cinema and screen arts.
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Richard Armstrong is an Associate Tutor affiliated to the British Film Institute. He is the author of Billy Wilder, American Film Realist (McFarland, 2000) and is currently preparing a book on Realism for the Bfi's Understanding the Moving Image series. He dreams of someday discovering the Peter Sellers footage from Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid in the attic.
articles by Richard Armstrong

Darren Arnold is the film critic for the Dutch Courier, and is the author of The Pocket Essential Spike Lee.
articles by Darren Arnold

Jon Ashton has been writing on film for City Lights (East Midlands) for several years, but has yet to see any evidence that anyone either knows or cares. He thinks writing about films is a daft way to spend your time, but is no longer fit for anything else.
articles by Jon Ashton

John Atkinson has worked for a number of years in film and media studies publishing. He is the author of the Pocket Essential guide to the Oscars. And if you think he's going to tell you what his favourite films are, well think again.
articles by John Atkinson

Mark Bego is the author of the new Pocket Essential guide to the films of The Marx Brothers (2001). His website is www.markbego.com
articles by Mark Bego

Oliver Berry is a previous editor of kamera.co.uk and works as a writer and journalist in Cornwall and London. He is a regular contributor to various film, travel and music publications and his awards include The Guardian Young Travel Writer of the Year.
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Laurence Boyce works for the Leeds International Film Festival, is the film editor of The Leeds Guide and a frequent contributor to Hotdog. He won the Guild of Regional Film Writers Award for Writer of the Year (Review) in 2002 and can still be seen holding the award in a vain attempt to cling onto glory.
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Robert Cagle writes about film and popular culture. He'd certainly never survive on a desert island, films or no films
articles by Robert Cagle

Ellen Cheshire writes for Crime Time, Classic Television, Movie Memory and Matrix. She is the author of The Pocket Essential Jane Campion and co-author of The Pocket Essential Joel and Ethan Coen
articles by Ellen Cheshire

Paul Clarke has had no trouble holding his own in the dog-eat-dog world of freelance film journalism after moving down to London. He will work for food.
articles by Paul Clarke

James Clarke is the author of the Pocket Essential guide to Steven Spielberg
articles by James Clarke

Andrew Davies is a writer and critic who regularly contributes to a number of publications.
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Elke de Wit is a freelance journalist and actor based in London.
articles by Elke de Wit

Carmel Doohan lives in London and supports her voracious film and theatre habit by answering the phones and tearing the tickets. She is a freelance arts journalist and reviews theatre for WhatsOnStage.com and Exuent. More of her work can be found at carmelreviews.wordpress.com
thoughts on theatre
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Barry Forshaw , whose books include The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction and British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia, along with books on Italian Cinema, Film Noir and a biography of Stieg Larsson, also edits Crime Time
Crime Time
articles by Barry Forshaw

Adrian Gargett has studied at the University of Hull (BA Art History),the University of London's Courtauld Institute (MA Art History) and the University of Warwick (PhD Philosophy) and currently works as a free-lance writer.
articles by Adrian Gargett

Roger Gathman has written for the New York Observer, Newsday, American Scholar and other publications. He lives in Austin, Texas
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Jan Gilbert is a London-based freelance film journalist and voiceover for broadcast, print, and online media including the BBC, ITV, and national teen magazine Flipside. She also hosts on-stage Q&A events with filmmakers and actors. Check out her TV showreel and contact her via her website.
Jan Gilbert's website
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Todd Harbour is a US-based freelance film and DVD critic specializing in genre, independent, and world cinema. He is a contributor to Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors and is the founder of Mobius Home Video Forum, a moderated film and home video discussion web site.
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Edmund Hardy lives in England where he writes articles on film, poetry and travel, and also proof-reads and copy-edits.
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Ian Haydn-Smith is an author and freelance journalist
articles by Ian Haydn-Smith

Scott Henderson is a freelance journalist specialising in film. Dedicated to becoming an encyclopedia of cinematic knowledge who functions solely on tea and Hob Nobs.
articles by Scott Henderson

Andrea Henry is the books editor of the Daily Mirror.
articles by Andrea Henry

Dr Jovan Ilic is a London-based writer, currently working on his first book. He is also a contributor to Stone Soup, an international magazine for new writing
articles by Dr Jovan Ilic

Neil Jackson obtained his PhD from the University of Westminster. He has contributed to the Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken Movie Top Ten's (Creation Books) and the Wallflower Press Critical Guides (North American Directors/British and Irish Directors). He has also contributed to Post Script, Video Watchdog and the online journal Kino Eye.
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Simon Jones is DirectorYouth Services at Living Well and former Senior Lecturer at Thames Valley University London. A budding screenwriter and freelance journalist, Simon can be contacted at simon@livingwellcic.com
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Tim Keane is a writer in New York. He has completed a novel, That Strange Flower, the Sun and a book of poems Waking Yellow & Blue. You can visit him at www.timkeane.com
articles by Tim Keane

Douglas Keesey is the author of Neo-Noir: Contemporary Film Noir from Chinatown to The Dark Knight, recently published by Kamera Books. His other publications include books on Catherine Breillat, Don DeLillo, Erotic Cinema, Peter Greenaway, and Paul Verhoeven. He teaches film and literature at California Polytechnic State University.
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Alex King is a Senior Programmer for Leeds International Film Festival and a freelance film writer. Visit his own film review website www.alexking.org.uk
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Edward Lamberti works as a film researcher, and is currently writing a feature-length screenplay.
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Sarah Manvel Sarah Manvel is an Irish-American film critic who lives in London. In addition to Kamera, she writes for sites including www.criticsnotebook.com.
articles by Sarah Manvel

Monika Maurer is a journalist and editor specialising in film. She has written for magazines including GQ, Esquire and Neon and is currently a regular contributor to industry paper The Hollywood Reporter and the UK's leading movie magazine, Empire. She has also worked as UK programmer for the Prague Film Festival and is the author of The Pocket Essential Krysztof Kieslowski. Her desert island movie is Emir Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies. She is a contributing editor and co-founder of kamera.co.uk
articles by Monika Maurer

Douglas McCabe works in publishing and writes on books and films for publications including Esquire, GQ and New Statesman. He can't decide whether his desert island movie is Rear Window or Paris, Texas.
articles by Douglas McCabe

Ben McCann teaches Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. He is currently writing a book on 1930s French cinema and is also a contributor to the Wallflower Press Critical Guides (North American Directors/British and Irish Directors).
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Xavier Mendik is the Director of the Cult Film Archive, University College Northampton.
articles by Xavier Mendik

Chris Michaels is a graduate student and teacher at the University of Bristol where he is researching the role of chance in modern American literature and contemporary politics.
articles by Chris Michaels

Caroline Millar works in video and dvd publishing and is a freelance reviewer for a number of publications.
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Conor Mills is a freelance writer currently based in London. He has written on film, sports, cars and travel with work published in a wide range of publications including The Week, the Telegraph, Auto Express and Little White Lies.
Conor Mills's website
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Thessa Mooij is a Brooklyn-based writer, who used to cover the Benelux film business for The Hollywood Reporter and Screen International. Since then, she has had three screenplays funded in her native Holland. Having published an essay about New Bollywood in Cineaste, she is now completely addicted to Hindi films. When not roaming Queens for the latest DVDs from Mumbai, she teaches Film Criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
articles by Thessa Mooij

Andy Murray writes for Manchester's City Life magazine, and is the co-author of the York Film Guide to A Hard Day's Night, Studying The Wicker Man for Auteur, as well as a forthcoming biography of scriptwriter Nigel Kneale
articles by Andy Murray

Sameer Padania lives in London, but is open to suggestion
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Antonio Pasolini is a film writer and video art curator currently based in Brazil after 13 years in London. He edited Kamera.co.uk between 2005 and 2008 and organized a video art show at the Tate Modern in London in March 2007.
Pasolini took an MA in film studies at the University of Westminster (London) between 1996 and 2000. He also writes about environmental issues on www.energyrefuge.com/blog
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Hannah Patterson is a freelance film journalist (Time Out Guides, Guardian, Sight & Sound, DOX, Vertigo). She is Commissioning Editor of Kamera Books and Creative Essentials, and Associate Editor of www.kamera.co.uk. She sits on the advisory board of the Branchage International Jersey Film Festival, writes for theatre and film, and works as a documentary producer.
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Marcelle Perks lectures at Hannover University, Germany. A budding film extra, she has contributed to British Horror Cinema and The BFI Companion to Horror, as well as writing extensively about horror films in Fangoria, Shivers, Redeemer, Flesh and Blood, Eyeball and Videoworld magazines. She is currently writing a novel and researching the serial killer Fritz Haarmann.
articles by Marcelle Perks

Eve Pomerance is a screenwriter and journalist who lives in New York. Her essays have appeared in the Independent Newspaper (UK) and Indiewire.com
articles by Eve Pomerance

Mathieu Ravier is programme co-ordinator of the Commonwealth Film Festival in Manchester.
articles by Mathieu Ravier

Jamie Russell is a freelance film journalist and independent scholar. He currently writes film reviews and articles for Hotdog, Total Film, Popcorn.co.uk and BBC Online. He has published a book on Beat Generation author William Burroughs, and two books for the Pocket Essentials Series: The Beat Generation and Vietnam War Films.
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Tim Smedley is a free-lance writer and film student based in Sheffield, who can generally be found at the cinema or in the pub.
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Martha Snowdon is a Masters student in film at Southampton University with particular interests in independent cinema. She is a contributor to the Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors (Wallflower Press, 2000)
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Trevor Soderstrum is a graduate student and professor at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.. He writes a weekly movie column for the LemCo. newspaper chain
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Mark Steensland is the author of the Pocket Essential guide to Michael Mann
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Katy Thompson works for film industry paper The Hollywood Reporter and also reviews for its sister music publication Billboard.
articles by Katy Thompson

Iain Tibbles is currently working on a screenplay.
articles by Iain Tibbles

Boyd van Hoeij is the editor of europeanfilms.net, the web destination for recent and upcoming European films. He is also a freelance writer for Cineuropa and Venice Days amongst others, as well as a member of the Online Film Critics Society.
articles by Boyd van Hoeij

Ben Walters is a freelance writer living in London. He is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine and his short biography of Orson Welles, was published by Haus in 2004.
articles by Ben Walters

Glenn Watson is a freelance film journalist based in Oxford. He has a special interest in Asian cinema which is partly responsible for his late-flowering study of martial arts.
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Dr Christine Westwood is a freelance writer on culture and art topics as well as a fiction series for young adults. She is also a video artist, a photo editor for The Australian national newspaper, and fascinated by how current art media creates endless possibilities for communicating ideas that can span international, and emotional, barriers.
articles by Dr Christine Westwood

Chris Wiegand has written on film, music and literature for a number of publications including Boxoffice Magazine, getoutthere.bt.com, Spike and The Richmond Review. He is the author of The Pocket Essential French New Wav.
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Steve Williams is a freelance writer and writes about film and art in a cultural and historical context. He studied Film & Media and Psychology at the University of Stirling and spent three years working with artists and filmmakers in Berlin. He is currently working on several projects including a documentary on Romanian cinema.
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Jason Wood is a freelance writer and documentary filmmaker, author of a Pocket Essentials book on Steven Soderbergh
articles by Jason Wood