The morning's speakers gather to field your questions and comments and discuss each other's research.

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.

Tony Lee Moral's new book "Hitchcock: The Storyboards" (Penguin Random House, September 2023) explores the visual design of The 39 Steps through to Torn Curtain. An updated version of "The Young Alfred Hitchcock's Moviemaking Master Class" (2022) focuses on Hitchcock's influence on a new generation of content creators. He is also author of "The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds" and "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie."

Steven DeRosa is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. Steven is the author of “Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes.” He’s appeared on-screen in the documentary “Viaggio nel Cinema in 3D: Una Storia Vintage, which premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival;” in the documentary “The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style;” and in featurettes on home video releases of “To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest.” Since 2011, Steven has been teaching film studies and screenwriting at Mercy University in Westchester County, New York. Beginning with his popular course on Hitchcock, Steven partnered with his local Alamo Drafthouse Cinema to host discussions for both students and the theater audience. He’s also hosted film series on Orson Welles, Hollywood Westerns, and Screwball Comedies.