Janisse, Kier-La

Kier-La Janisse is a writer and film programmer who co-founded the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She was a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival and the Big Smash! Music-on-Film Festival (both in Vancouver) and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror. She has written for Filmmaker, Rue Morgue & Fangoria, has contributed to Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punk on Film (Fantagraphics, 2010), and is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi, published by FAB Press in 2007.