Kieran Masterton developer, cinephile & film research student.

Day

By day I write code. Normally Ruby or PHP. Rails, WordPress, jQuery, Sass and HTML5 also feature heavily.

I co-own and operate 88MPH a small Rails & WordPress shop in Bath, England and spend most of my day managing projects and developing sites for clients like Future Publishing and Smashing Magazine.

Recently 88MPH helped build and launch Bread a web industry job aggregation site to help web professionals earn a crust. The site was built in collaboration with fellow Bath web dev Keir Whitaker and currently has 2,951 jobs available.

Night

By night I'm a perpetual film student with a love of horror movies, independent cinema and film poster art.

In 2009 I co-founded, funded and built independent film distribution platform OpenIndie. The system is designed to allow fans to pull indie films into theatres near them by requesting a screening of films on the site.

When I'm not working on OpenIndie I am studying for a PhD in the field of film theory. I specialise in the slasher sub-genre and alternative methods of distribution. Taking its lead from OpenIndie my research focuses on the phenomenon of crowdsourced theatrical distribution.

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