REBEKAH MCKENDRY, Director of Marketing and Staff Writer for Fangoria Entertainment

Rebekah McKendry

Rebekah McKendry is the Director of Marketing for FANGORIA ENTERTAINMENT as well as a staff writer. She has been with FANGORIA since 2004, and began as a research assistant working for FANGORIA RADIO on Sirius XM. Additionally, she is a college professor teaching classes focused on film history and horror films. She has Bachelors degrees in Film and English, a MA in Media Education, a MFA in Film Production, and she is currently completing her PhD in Film Theory focused on horror and exploitation cinema. She also co-hosts a weekly podcast on GeekNation called KILLER POV. Though she loves all types of horror, her major interests are controversial and transgressive filmmaking including 70s grindhouse and video nasties. She also focuses a large section of her research into horror films that are hard-to-locate or which never received distribution.

JOSEPH NEFF, Projectionist and Cinephile

Joseph Neff

As a teenager, Joseph’s film-viewing epiphany came while watching Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog as the movie was broadcast late on a Saturday night by a PBS affiliate in nearby Washington DC. Since then he’s engaged with filmmaking in its many diverse forms, including the breakthroughs of the early silent cinema and the movies of Hollywood’s classic studio era, while simultaneously soaking up the many unique achievements offered by global film culture and taking a deep interest in the progression of contemporary motion pictures, particularly those created in the independent sphere. Along with working at the Winchester VA location of the Alamo Drafthouse, he also attends college part time and writes weekly record reviews for the music website The Vinyl District.

Matthew Grosso

MATTHEW GROSSO Photographer, Filmmaker, Tinkerer, and Cinephile

Matthew Grosso is an film enthusiast with a broad range of skills. He studied Philosophy and Photography at Earlham College and spent many nights espousing his opinions. At that time he also started cataloging and rating his personal movie collection. He loves rating films according to his own personal scoring criteria and is delighted to share that system with the Skyline Indie Film Festival. In his spare time he dabbles film making, stop motion animation and robotics. He works as a digital technician for several major photographers in Chicago and stays on top of cinematic history as the host of two trivia nights.