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SETH LUKAS HYNES

11/8/2019

SETH
LUKAS HYNES

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Seth is a passionate writer and lifelong film lover. He is the weekly freelance film critic for the Mountain Views Mail newspaper, runs the popular YouTube film review channel QUANTUMJOKER and has had film articles published in mX and Wordly Magazine.

SHARON HURST

11/8/2019

SHARON HURST

Contact Via AFCA

Sharon comes from a teaching and journalistic background.

She has been reviewing for cinephilia since 2003 and has radio reviewing spots on 3CR (fortnightly) and 2GB (weekly).

She has recently started her own blog with an aim to not spending more than five minutes reviewing any one film!

BLAKE HOWARD

11/8/2019

BLAKE HOWARD

Contact Via AFCA

Blake is a writer, a podcaster, and the editor-in-chief & co-founder of Australian film blog Graffiti With Punctuation & hosts the One Heat Minute Podcast.

He is also a critic for Flicks.com.au, co-host of Gaggle of Geeks on Sydney's 2ser community radio, a columnist at the Australian online institution Dark Horizons, sways the tomato meter with Rotten Tomatoes approved reviewers and is a member of the Online Film Critic Society.

CERISE HOWARD

11/8/2019

CERISE HOWARD

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Cerise is a New Zealand-born freelance writer and peregrine film critic, and a broadcaster, musician and performer based in Melbourne, where she is the Artistic Director of the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia and a Melbourne Cinémathèque and tilde: Melbourne's Trans and Gender Diverse Film Festival committee member.

She can regularly be heard on “Plato's Cave” on radio station 3RRR. Her writing on film can be found in Senses of Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal, in Slovenia's Kino! journal and elsewhere.

TIM HOAR

11/8/2019

TIM HOAR

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Tim is a Canberra based writer and podcaster. He has maintained beermovie.net for eight years and occasionally pops up in other places online too. You can find Tim's podcast Driving Home From The Cinema Reviews on iTunes. You can also find Tim musing away on Twitter (@beer_movie).

ZAK HEPBURN

11/8/2019

ZAK HEPBURN

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Zak is a Melbourne based film critic and film programmer, and the former chairman of the AFCA.

He currently appears on ABC TV's national ABC News Breakfast program and other ABC Radio programs. He is also the General Manager of Melbourne's iconic Astor Theatre, where he curates the theatre's eclectic program.

BERNARD HEMINGWAY

11/8/2019

BERNARD HEMINGWAY

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Bernard is the founder/editor of Cinephilia, an online film review site. The site is updated weekly with new theatrical releases and has a searchable archive of 5000 film reviews.

BEN HELLWIG

11/8/2019

BEN HELLWIG

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Ben is a writer and film critic for Cult of Monster, and Australian-based genre film site. He is the director of home entertainment for Monster Pictures and co-ordinator of Monster Fest.

He has worked in the film industry for over 20 years and has a particular interest in the more bizarre side of cinema.

ALEXANDRA HELLER-NICHOLAS

11/8/2019

ALEXANDRA
HELLER-NICHOLAS

Alexandra is a film critic, editor and consultant who has written five books on cult, horror, and exploitation film including Rap-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality and books on Suspiria, Ms. 45 and The Hitcher.

In 2019 she is releasing two new books, 1000 Women in Horror from Bear Manor Media, and Eyes Without Faces: marks and Horror Cinema from the University of Wales Press. She has recently co-edited books on Elaine May, the collaborative film work of Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, and the catalogue for ACMI's Wonderland exhibition. In 2018 she presided over the horror jury at Fantastic Fest in Texas, the biggest genre film festival in North America.

Alexandra is also a freelance writer and has recently featured in publications including Senses of Cinema, Flicks, Endcrawl, Vulture and New York Magazine, and is a regular contributor of commentaries and liner notes to home entertainment releases from international companies including Arrow Video and Eureka.

RICHARD S HE

11/8/2019

RICHARD S HE

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Richard is a AFCA award winning freelance writer and contributor for The Guardian, Junkee, Vulture, The Essential and Vice.

He spends a lot of time thinking about high and lowbrow in pop culture, making amazing/terrible mashups, and not much else.