POLAND In our country, a producer is only a manufacturer Dariusz Jabłońkski, president of Poland's Association of Independent Film and TV Producers, interviewed Surverying the changes to the Polish industry since 1989, Jabłońkski complains to Felicitas Becker about the problems faced from politicians, tardy distributors, TV producers and changing audience tastes. SLOVENIA We need to unite Leading Slovene producer Danijel Hočevar interviewed Despite having impressed festivals such as Venice and Berlin with his fare, Hočevar tells Igor Pop Trajkov that southeast European producers should not look to Western funding for their projects but should band together. From the archive Making it all happen A special issue of Kinoeye devoted to producers

HORROR Body horror and the gender of space and city Auli Mantila's Pelon maantiede (Geography of Fear, 2000) Tarja Laine here looks at how Pelon maantiede, a recent Finnish thriller by Auli Mantila, renders the bodily experience of urban space a matter of social identity. HORROR Italian perversions Antonio Margheriti and Paul Morrissey's Il mostro é in Tavola, Barone Frankenstein (Flesh for Frankenstein, 1974) and Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete! (Blood for Dracula, 1974) Examining the "paradigms of perversion" in two films by the unlikely team of Paul Morrissey and Antonio Margheriti, Patricia MacCormack shows how Italian horror "demands... that viewers reorient their own specifically cinematic libidinal expectations."

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