- Known For
- Directing
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- Place of Birth
- Winnipeg, Canada
Kier-La Janisse
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
movieThe War Game at Cinecity
2026 · Executive Producer
movieThe Occupant of the Room
2025 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
movie1000 Women in Horror
2025 · Self
movieThe Stone Forest
2025 · Narrator
movieThe Art of the Calendar
2024 · Director
tvThe Haunted Season
2024 · Director, Writer
movieKier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
2024
A Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
movieA Tribute To Karin Schubert: The ‘Nackedei’ Actress
2023 · Narrator, Director
movieThe Reluctant Icon: A Tribute to Laura Gemser
2023 · Narrator, Director, Writer
movieAjita Wilson: An Elusive Icon
2023 · Producer
movieThe Naked Eye: Sex and the Mondo Film
2023 · Producer
I'm Not a Guru
movieI'm Not a Guru
2023 · Executive Producer
movieTo Fire You Come at Last
2023 · Executive Producer
The Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
movieThe Kid from a Kibbutz: Daliah Lavi and the Road to Il Demonio
2021 · Producer
movieWoodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021 · Self, Writer, Additional Editor, Director, Producer
movieBlood in the Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021 · Director, Producer
movieA Folk Horror Tale
2021 · Script
movieTales of the Uncanny
2020 · Self, Producer
From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
movieFrom the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film
2019 · Director, Editor, Producer
movieTights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
2019 · Producer
tvEli Roth's History of Horror
2018 · Self
movieWe Always Find Ourselves in the Sea
2017 · Executive Producer
movieRaw, Rough and Rabid: The Lacerating Legacy of Cinépix
2015 · Herself
movieParasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014 · Self
movieLost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · Self
movieEurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
2012 · Producer
movieCelluloid Horror
2004 · Herself
movieTake My Body: The Journey of a Blow-up Doll
— · Self, Director, Producer, Editor
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue
movieTerminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In Out of the Blue
— · Producer, Writer
Killing for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
movieKilling for Culture: The Birth of Atrocity Cinema
— · Director, Adaptation
The Fated Hour
movieThe Fated Hour
— · Executive Producer