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

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.

Pat McFadden is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. Pat grew up inside most of the revival movie theaters in Manhattan. After winning the Student Emmy and the regional Student Academy Award for his short film "Equilibriumness," he transplanted himself in California, where he worked several years as a First Assistant Film Editor, notably on HBO tele-features. Pat was an Executive Assistant at Walt Disney Imagineering for 23 years.

Maria Belodubrovskaya is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of "Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin" (Cornell University Press, 2017) and has published articles on film aesthetics, history, theory, and Russian film in" Cinema Journal," "Film History," "Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind," "Slavic Review," "Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema," "KinoKultura," and several edited volumes.

Polly Thompson has worked as an editor and writer in Vancouver, Ottawa, Belleville and Toronto, first in newspapers and then in medical periodicals and research institutes. In 2015 and 2016 she presented at international conferences on Virginia Woolf and Lucy Maud Montgomery. Since 2017, her personal research interest has been Alfred Hitchcock. She lives in Toronto, Canada.