Kier-La Janisse
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Winnipeg, Canada
Kier-La Janisse
Biography
Kier-La Janisse (1972-) is a Canadian film writer, programmer and producer, founder of international horror school The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012). Her first feature film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is due out from Severin Films in 2021.
Known For
Acting
The Stone Forest
as Narrator
(2024)
(2023)
(2023)
(2021)
(2021)
(2020)
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
(2015)
(2014)
(2014)
(2004)
Celluloid Horror
as Herself
Crew
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue
Producer, Writer
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
Director, Adaptation
(2024)
The Art of the Calendar
Director
(2023)
(2023)
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
Director, Writer
(2023)
(2023)
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
Producer
(2023)
To Fire You Come at Last
Executive Producer
(2021)
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Writer, Additional Editor, Director, Producer
(2021)
Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
Director, Producer
(2021)
A Folk Horror Tale
Script
(2021)
(2020)
S.W.A.L.K. II
Writer
(2020)
Tales of the Uncanny
Producer
(2019)
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
Director, Producer, Editor
(2019)
(2017)
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
Executive Producer
(2012)