Jules Bruff, Actress, USA – Jury President
Jules made her writing and producing feature film debut with PART TIME FABULOUS (PTF). She won best actress awards for her portrayal in PTF at the Monaco Charity Film Festival and the Los Angeles Feel Good Film Festival in 2011. PTF has been nominated for a 2012 Voice Award; 2011 winners were The Fighter, The King’s Speech and The Beaver. She produced the short films STATION ZERO and CANDYBAR in 2011 as well. Jules began generating her own projects when she co-created, produced and starred in the comedic web series DESTINED TO FAIL. Upon moving to Los Angeles Jules began working in film and television projects, over 40 National TV commercials, and several plays. Her first big break came when she landed the pivotal role of Catherine Allen in David Fincher’s highly acclaimed 2007 film ZODIAC.

Louis Alexander – Costa Rica
Louis has been in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. Having worked as an Actor, Producer and Director in Films, TV shows and over 200 commercials, Louis is presently in pre-production for two motion pictures, one of them a musical. He also started a TV Network (SEA TV) which is in the funding process at the present time. His TV commercial company (Americ-Ad) produces a lot of commercials for Time Warner. Louis is married and commutes between Los Angeles, Costa Rica and New York.
www.louisalexanderfilms.com – IMDB

Margaret Emery, Screenwriter, USA
Margaret Emery has worked as a screenwriter, actress, producer and director, in films, TV shows and commercials in the United States and Europe. She currently writes comedy for television and feature films and recently produced, co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in the comedic short film, Love Rush Lottery. As an actress, Margaret has worked with acclaimed directors Michael Apted and Sally Field, and appeared on hit television shows such as ER, Dharma and Greg, Strong Medicine, as well as the improv comedy show, the Jamie Kennedy Experiment. Margaret is conversant in German, Spanish and French, and has written and produced travel shows all over the world, for radio and television.
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Brad Littlefield
Successful Silicon Valley professional turned award-winning film producer; spent 10+ years working w/exciting startups including Google/YouTube; Partner at Open Range Pictures & Producer of 2010 feature “Becoming Eduardo” (Elizabeth Peña, Julian Alcaraz); involved in development & funding of “Family Tree”, “Devil of Appalachia”, “Tangible Evidence”, “Traveling Salesmen”, “Desert Water”, “Dark Desert Highway”, “Desdemona Goes Shopping for the Fountain of Youth”, “Are You There”, “The Ghost Machine”, “Implant”, “Skorpio”, “Go East”, and “One Amazing Thing”. Brad splits his time between Hollywood, California and Las Cruces, New Mexico where he actively promotes economic development and job creation in the New Mexico film community.
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Boris Martinovich
While still a full scholarship student in New York’s Julliard School of Music, the young croatian-born BORIS MARTINOVICH made his debut at Avery Fischer Hall in New York’s Lincoln Center in Refice’s “Cecilia”, with Renata Scotto, prompting Bill Zakariasen to write in the New York Daily News, “BORIS MARTINOVICH is a 21 year old basso of prodigious potential”.

BORIS MARTINOVICH burst upon the international scene in 1977. when as a Metropolitan Opera Regional Finalist, he was engaged by Gian Carlo Menotti for the Spoleto USA production of Tschaikovsky’s “Queen of Spades” opposite MagdaOlivero, and the new production of Menotti’s “The Consul” which was televised.
Shortly there after, he made his Carnegie Hall debut and soon appeared in the leading opera houses in the USA such as the San Francisco, the Cincinatti Opera, the New York City Opera, and the Baltimore Opera, to name but a few of the musical cities that have acclaimed his performances.
www.boris-martinovich.com

Christophe Nassif, Filmmaker, France
Christophe is an award-winning filmmaker, born in the little Principality of Monaco, on the French Riviera. Half Italian, half Lebanese, yet a French citizen, he has grown in a multi-cultural mix on the Mediterranean. He has studied and lived in three countries, is fluent in English, French, and Spanish, and has an addiction for dark chocolate. Christophe focuses on Directing and Sound, and he was recently awarded the Outstanding 1st Time Director Award from the DC Shorts Film Festival, and a Special Mention Award from the Monaco Charity Film Festival.
www.christophenassif.com – info@christophenassif.com – IMDB

Arnaud Collery, a graduate of Chinese, Japanese, American and French universities and has been doing comedy all over the world as a writer, stand up comedian or filmmaker in many languages.

‘Little Klaus Big World” was at the Nigata Film Festival in Japan in 2011. He is also the founder of “Comedie sans frontieres” a NGO aimed at bringing humor in the classrooms in third world countries. He was a quarter finalist in the NBC show “Last comic standing”. You can see on a regular basis at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles or the Tokyo Comedy Store. He is represented by Agent Ann Soussi and Publicist David Robertson.
www.klauspierre.com – IMDB

Hakeem Kae-Kazim – Jury President
Hakeem is Nigerian born and has lived all over the world including South Africa, London and America. He was classically trained at the Bristol Old Vic and has shared the stage with critically acclaimed actors for his performances as Edmund in ‘King Lear’ with Brian Cox, and Tyrell in ‘Richard III’ with Sir Ian McKellan. No stranger to TV or Film Hakeem has vast credits in hits like Hotel Rwanda, Pirates of The Caribbean, X-Men Wolverine, The Fourth Kind, 24, Human Target, Lost and many more. His recent work includes starring in the award winning African film ‘Inale and ‘Man on Ground’ which he also produced.
www.hakeemkae-kazim.com – IMDB

James Jeffery Caldwell is an American actor, director, and producer who has won numerous international awards for performances on stage and screen. Trained at the Stella Adler Conservatory for Film and Theater, he studied Philosophy and Comparative Mythology at CSU Long Beach and resides in his native Los Angeles.
www.jamesjefferycaldwell.com – IMDB

Cookie Lommel is an established author and Film producer. She has served as entertainment editor for Teen Magazine; music editor for Cash Box Magazine; associate editor for Radio & Records Magazine; and editor at large for Black Elegance Magazine. Lommel has interviewed hundreds of film, television and music personalities as an on camera correspondent for CNN. She is the author of thirteen biographies and she has produced twelve feature films.
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Jeff Frentzen – Jury President is a filmmaker, author, journalist, and musician whose first feature film as director, House on the Hill, is having its World Premiere at this film festival. Starting in 2005, Frentzen produced a series of low budget independent movies for Lions Gate Entertainment, and more recently a documentary on self-help for people with disabilities. He has been director-in-residence at Film Actors Studio in West Hollywood (2006-2008), has published fiction and nonfiction (“The Outer Limits Official Companion”) and has worked in trade publishing, as well.
jfrentzen@gmail.com – www.facebook.com/jfrentzen – IMDB

Richard Chagoury
A native Angelino, Richard Chagoury spent his first eight years living in Africa. Soon after moving back to America, he discovered acting. Richard immediately sought out roles that challenged his own humanity. In his very first film, “Cuba, No America,” he portrayed an orphan from Afghanistan, improperly held in Guantanamo Bay. The film received the Audience Award at the American Film Institute. Soon afterwards, he appeared in the film “Schooled” which received several nominations for Best Ensemble Cast at various Film Festivals. His next project was “AmericanEast” in which he played a young boy trying to balance the traditional ways of his family with life in America. Richard felt an immediate compassion for his character and hopes that this film will start a dialogue that will ease religious stereotypes. “AmericanEast” received accolades at both the Hampton Film Festival and the Dubai Film Festival. His theatrical credits include “The Imperfect Seed” in which he played a young man with Bipolar Disorder. Richard is currently a member on the Screen Actor’s Guild Panel for Diversity.
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Bryan Chamchoum, Filmmaker, USA
Bryan goes to the University of Southern California where he studies Interactive Media in the film school. He has interned at paramount pictures, worked at Activision and is now interning for G4’s X-play.

JAIRO L JARAMILLO, (USA/Mexico)
Film Student at LA Film School.
Jairo was born on September 23, 1989 in San Diego (California), his parents were both born in Mexico. He loves to watch films and has a great love for them. He has many goals in life but his greatest one is to be part of the film industry. He is currently still a film student and will graduate in November 2012. He has gone thru many struggles to be in a Film School and nothing stopped him to achieve this goal – to become a Filmmaker.

Catherine Kyritsis, Actress (Greece)
Catherine was born in South Africa and has lived all over the world in countries like Greece, Romania, Thailand and England. Her love for films started at a young age of watching American movies. Her dream had always been to be involved with films someway or another. She received her Bachelors in Film Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury England. Following this she moved to New York and began her Master of the Fine Arts in Acting for film at the New York Film Academy. Her final year was completed in Los Angeles and she graduated in June 2011. She is currently trying to work as much as she can in production work and as an actress but continuing her learning process as an actress by taking Improvisation classes at The Groundlings school.