Stephanie Tell

Stephanie Tell is a film curator, researcher, and festival worker. She programs in the Narrative Features (lead) and Narrative Shorts areas of the New Orleans Film Festival, as well as the Narrative Features category at the Atlanta Film Festival. Stephanie is currently completing a PhD dissertation through the University of Melbourne, Australia, focusing on cultures of horror and masquerade on film. Her research interests broadly span liminal and ritual studies, genre cinema, and the possibilities of the cinematic carnivalesque. In another life, Stephanie lived on a warm, dry rock as a contented land iguana.