About
Kier-La Janisse (born 1972) is a Canadian film producer, programmer, founder of international horror school The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films. Her feature directorial debut, the documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, was released in 2021.
Filmography
The War Game at Cinecity2026 · Executive Producer
The Occupant of the Room2025 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Art of the Calendar2024 · Director
The Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser2023 · Director, Writer
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress2023 · Director
Ajita Wilson: An Elusive Icon2023 · Producer
The Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film2023 · Producer
I'm Not a Guru2023 · Executive Producer
To Fire You Come at Last2023 · Executive Producer
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio2021 · Producer
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror2021 · Writer, Additional Editor, Director, Producer
Blood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon2021 · Director, Producer
A Folk Horror Tale2021 · Script
Tales of the Uncanny2020 · Producer
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film2019 · Director, Producer, Editor
Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita2019 · Producer
We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea2017 · Executive Producer
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s2012 · Producer