Gala 2012 — Special Guest Speaker
Brett Stimely 2012 Special Guest — Actor / Producer Brett Stimely’s current film, Ray Bradbury’s Kaleidoscope, [screening at this year’s ITSA Film Festival] which Brett wrote, produced and stars in, is just beginning its festival run and is winning awards right out of the gate… WINNER 2012 BEST SCI-FI – Action On Film International Film Festival WINNER 2012 [...]
Gary Bulkin – 2012 Judge
Gary Bulkin is a Producer, Director and Cinematographer C A R E E R Gary Bulkin is an Emmy Award-winning Director with over 20 years of experience producing/directing hundreds of national TV commercials, independent films, documentary films, promotional spots, music videos, and training films. Since founding B&B Communications in 1987, Gary has earned over 20 [...]
James Kenney Joins ITSA Film Festival Judging Panel
James Kenney is a documentary director and producer. His work includes a current feature about the Congo, the feature Other Than shot with 11 directors on 5 continents, and the feature, Polack which explores the source of the Polish joke. Jim started in film, creating title sequences and graphics at Imaginary Forces in Hollywood. He [...]
2012 Special Guest Nathan Larkin-Connolly
Nathan Larkin-Connolly was born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire and is currently being born and raised again in Los Angeles, California. He’s about six feet tall and enjoys sports, music and seeing his friends smile. Larkin-Connolly was an award winning filmmaker at Emerson College where he studied the art of filmmaking. Subsequently he has become [...]
2012 Judge – Jennifer Layne Park
Jennifer Layne Park acts, sings,writes and produces. She was named one of the “20 Hottest New Stars” along with Amy Adams and Anne Hathaway by the editors of PENTHOUSE magazine in their movie issue. She says, “I still laugh about the fact that I got in there with my clothes ON!”Miss Park’s first “big break” was acting [...]
Director Ari Costa 2012 Gala Speaker
Ari Costa is a Filmmaker living and working in Los Angeles. He graduated from Emerson College with his schools most prestigious award (the EVVY). Ari has worked in comedy development at NBC Universal on shows such as 30 Rock, The Office, and Parks and Recreation, and currently works with Emmy Award winning directors Joe and [...]
2011 Speaker Stephen David Brooks
STEPHEN DAVID BROOKS Upon graduating from UCLA film school, Stephen began his career as a Visual Effects Supervisor under the tutelage of two time Academy Award winner John Dykstra (SPIDERMAN 1&2 and HANCOCK). Stephen added the title of screenwriter to his resume when he adapted Stephen Kings short story THE MANGLER for New Line Cinema, [...]
2011 Speaker Kela Cabrales
Kela Cabrales Kela joined Industrial Light & Magic as a production assistant in 1995, where she worked on several films including Mission Impossible and the special editions of the Star Wars Trilogy. After two years of working in production, Kela was excited at the opportunity to move over to the computer graphics side. She started [...]
