Joseph A. Ziemba

Joseph A. Ziemba's a designer, author, video editor, film programmer, and musician. He's the Creative Director of the American Genre Film Archive in Austin, Texas. Over the years, he's been a janitor, librarian, full-time musician, and advertising industry drop-out. As a film programmer at the Alamo Drafthouse, he's hosted and programmed the weekly horror series "Terror Tuesday" in Austin for over a decade, and created and programmed "Video Vortex," a monthly series that celebrates direct-to-video genre films from the fringes. He's also shepherded "Dismember the Alamo," an annual horror movie marathon that took place at nearly twenty theater locations across the country for almost ten years.