As one of the highlights of the evening the first “Bright Minds Film Festival Life Achievement Award” will be given to internationally renowned Mexican television and film actress and director Adriana Barraza, who has been nominated for a Golden Globe, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Broadcast Films Critics Association, and an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role in “Babel”, starred by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. She won an award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture at the San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards for the same film.
We are very proud to announce that the award-winning Mexican-American actor Sebastian Ligarde, best known for his work in telenovelas and the big screen will be one of the judges of "Bright Minds Film Festival". In his close to four decade career he has appeared in more than 25 telenovelas and series and over 90 films - most of them in first billing. He has obtained the Diosa de Plata award for best film actor ("El Homicida"). He was also awarded El Heraldo for best film actor and fourTVyNovelas awards (Mexico's equivalent of an Emmy). In 2002 the League of United Latin American Citizens named him "Sr. Internacional" for his contribution to that society and as "Honorary President of the Republic of the Rio Grande" for his contributions to the state of Texas.
Our judges panel wouldn't be complete without this professional recording engineer with more than 20 years of experience in music production, recording and mixing, with 3 Latin Grammy Awards and dozens of nominations, Boris Milan.
He has worked with many of the most successful Latin and Anglo Music artists today by bringing a “Unique Sound” to their music. He specializes in working with music styles of all genres ranging from Latin, TropiPop, Urban, Pop , Alternative and Rock.
The night will also include a live music performance by artist Grethel Ortiz, in collaboration with Latin Grammy Award winner Tony Tahan and Gibson Guitars’ artist Luis Gomez.
