Sidney Gottlieb moderates audience Q&A with presenters Joel Gunz, Christine Madrid French, and Robert Bellissimo.

Sidney Gottlieb is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. A true leading light of Hitchcock scholarship, Sidney edits the Hitchcock Annual and is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. His publications on Hitchcock include two volumes of "Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews" (University of California Press, 1995; 2015), "Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews" (University Press of Mississippi, 2003), "Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual" (co-edited with Christopher Brookhouse; Wayne State University Press, 2002); "The Hitchcock Annual Anthology: Selected Essays from Volumes 10-15" (co-edited with Richard Allen; Wallflower Press, 2009), and the forthcoming "Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now" (co-edited with Donal Martin; John Libbey Publishing/Indiana University Press, 2021).

Joel Gunz is President & Host of HitchCon. An independent scholar known online as the Alfred Hitchcock Geek, Joel is an award-winning filmmaker and publisher of "The Hitchcockian Quarterly." His fascination with the Master of Cinema commenced at age 12 and never stopped, eventuating in hundreds of scholarly articles, chapters and essays. As a film essayist, Joel adds his personal history to his scholarship, blending the two with special effects that re-examine the duality of subject and object, the imaginal and the real. His latest such film, "Spellbound by L’Amour Fou," won Best Short Documentary at the Medusa Film Festival. He is also producer and director of three essay film series: "How to Watch Hitchcock" (2018-19), "Freak the Geek" (2018-current) and "Alfred Hitchcock, Master of the Surreal" (2019-current). Joel and his partner, Christy La Guardia, live with their beagle, Charlie, in Olympia, Washington.

Christine Madrid French is a historian, screenwriter and author of the upcoming "Alfred Hitchcock and American Architecture: Villain’s Lairs, Skyscrapers, Mansions, and Motels" (University of Virginia Press, 2022). Her unproduced screenplay, "Piney Croft," a paranormal horror feature set in Florida, was a semi-finalist at the Orlando Film Festival and selected by iHorror Film Festival, Northeast Film Festival Horror Fest, and the Madrid International Film Festival. She currently works as Director of Development with the California Preservation Foundation and is head of Creator Services at LoCo+, a streaming platform featuring local content creators.

The worst thing you can say to Robert Bellissimo is "It's just a movie.” That sense of value imbues his insightful reviews and interviews as host of "Robert Bellissimo at the Movies." Robert is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School’s certificate program and of The New School of Drama’s two-year diploma program. He also trained at The Actor’s Temple in London, England. Credits include "Private Eyes" (TV Series) "Robbery" (Amazon Prime), "Mariner" (winner, 10 Best Short Films of Canada, TIFF, 2016), "Moose On The Loose" (Magnus Theatre), "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2," "Little Foxes," (short film), "The Olde Proverb" (short film) and "Anna" (short film, winner, numerous film festival awards). As an acting coach and teacher, Robert has run his own workshops, and has taught at Fraser Studios and Improv Your Acting Studio. Robert has been a cinephile for many years and has always been fascinated by all kinds of movies. He feels that educating people on the importance of how movies reflect our lives is essential. Films open up our hearts, minds and sense of empathy and nothing is more valuable than that!