Award-winning filmmaker and novelist Gregory Lamberson has worked in independent film for 40 years and is a member of the Producers Guild of America and International Thriller Writers. Lamberson writes, produces and directs independent feature films of his own, and freelances as a screenwriter and ghostwriter. He is the author of fifteen books, including twelve professionally published novels. Known primarily for his work in the horror, action, and comedy genres, he received NCCC Film and Animation Festival's Filmmaker of the Year award in 2017 and Shawna Shea Film Festival's William C. Gerrity Award in 2019. Lamberson is an advocate for film production in Western New York, where he serves as the Executive Director of the nonprofit organization Cinema Arts Collaborative, Inc., and teaches screenwriting at University at Buffalo. He co-founded Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival, which ran for three years, and Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival, which ran for ten, and recently launched Amazing Fantasy Fest. Fangoria magazine called him "the busiest man in horror."