CAIFF | Films | Judges

	Mickey Jones has enjoyed considerable success in the music business both as a musician and a singer. In the past years he has added acting to his already outstanding credits, having been featured in numerous guest star roles in hit TV shows such as "Northern Exposure," "Hearts Afire," "Evening Shade," "In the Heat of the Night," "Matlock, "Baywatch," and now Mickey can be seen as Peter Bilker, one of the K&B boys, on the smash ABC-TV series "Home Improvement" with Tim Allen. Some of Mickey's feature films include "Drop Zone" with Wesley Snipes, "Total Recall" with Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Tin Cup" with Kevin Costner and Rene Russo and Mickey also performs one of the hit songs in the film "Double Bogey Blues", "The Sunchaser" with Woody Harrelson, "Nadine" with Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger, "Extreme Prejudice" with Nick Nolte, John Carpenter's "Starman" and "National Lampoon's Vacation" with Chevy Chase.

	Jonathan Lipnicki is an American actor, born October 22, 1990, in Westlake Village, California to Joe Lipnicki and Rhonda Rosen, Joe a Canadian Jewish expatriate who moved to California in 1964 in response to the beginning of the events concerning the Front de libération du Québec. Lipnicki is best known for his motion picture roles in “Jerry Maguire” and in various family movies, such as “Stuart Little”, “Doctor Dolittle”, “The Little Vampire”, Stuart Little 2, “Like Mike”, and “When Zachary Beaver Came to Town”. Lipnicki also had recurring roles on The Jeff Foxworthy Show and Dawson's Creek. After a hiatus from acting, Lipnicki will be returning this September on the Emmy winning show, MONK in a guest star role.

	Yvonne Craig as a young teenager she was accepted to Denham's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She moved to Los Angeles to peruse her dance and film career. Ms. Craig’s film credits include “In Like Flint”, "Batgirl" from the 1960's Batman Television series, “Sky Party” and she co-starred with Elvis in two films “It Happened at the World's Fair” and “Kissin' Cousins”. Ms. Craig intentional fame came with the cult Television series "Batman" in which she played Commissioner Gordon's daughter, Barbara. Her secret identity was Batgirl and as the Commissioner's daughter, she had access to all the calls of trouble that was taking place in Gotham. After "Batman", she also appeared on other television programs such as "Star Trek”, "The Six Million Dollar Man", “Fantasy Island”, “Starsky and Hutch” and “Kojak”. Ms. Craig is currently the voice of Grandma on the hit Nickelodeon animated series “Olivia”.

	Mary Lou Belli is an Emmy Award winner producer, writer, and director. She has just finished directing “Monk” starring Emmy award winner Tony Shalhoub. This season she also directed “The Game,” the spinoff to “Girlfriends” on the CW which she directed for 7 consecutive seasons. She directed the pilot of the Web series 3Way, winner of 2 Logo awards and The AfterEllen.com 2008 Visibility Awards for Best Lesbian/bi Web Series, which is about to start its second season. With over 100 episodes to her credit, Mary Lou directed "Living with Fran" starring Fran Drescher, "Misconceptions" starring Jane Leeves, and "Eve" starring hip hop artist Eve, as well as “The Hughleys,” “Charles in Charge," "Major Dad," and “Sister, Sister.” Mary Lou received BET nominations for directing "Girlfriends" and "One on One” as well as a Prism Award for "Girlfriends." She is the co-author of two books: “The Sitcom Career Book.” and "Acting for Young Actors" and is the head of the Education Advisory Committee for 3 Minute Highschool.com.

	Pete Crooks is the senior editor and senior writer at Diablo magazine. His blog, Pete's Popcorn Picks at www.diablomag.com, focuses on the Bay Area's cinema scene—from new movies at the multiplex to independent film festivals and special screenings at rep theaters. Pete has been the movie critic for KFRC and KSAN radio's morning shows, and appeared on KRON's Bay Area Backroads and KPIX's Eye on the Bay. His five favorite films are Singin' in the Rain, This Is Spinal Tap, Gimme Shelter, The Apartment, and Dr. Strangelove.

	Sondra Currie has consistently worked, guest-starring on over 85 TV shows (most recently NCIS, ER,Secret Life of the American Teenager, JAG) and is in the blockbuster summer hit THE HANGOVER, the highest grossing comedy of all time. She also completed filming an US/Australian co-production, Lords of the Underworld. Plus several Movies of the Week (inc. starring roles in Kid Cop, The Secretary, The Perfect Wife, Hallmark's Thicker Than Water and Dark Horizon), two MOW Columbo specials Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star" & "Murder in Malibu". She and her husband, renowned producer/director Alan J. Levi) have a production company (LUMINA PICTURES and ENTERTAINMENT LTD.) She does theatre every chance she gets (most recently "The Women") and has successfully produced several plays including "The Chesterfield Woman". She is a founding member of the Theatre Group at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and is a member of the prestigious "Theatre West".

	Toshiya Kubo a media Producer and Representative of Maverick Creative Works. After graduating from the Department of Broadcasting, Faculty of Arts, Nihon University, worked for an advertising agency, a game company, and a CG production company. Mr. Kubo established Maverick Creative Works in 2002. He is an executive committee member/producer of the SAPPORO Short Fest (a sister film festival to CIFF) and One Dot Zero, a short film festival. Mr. Kubo is a specialist in marketing, entertainment business and character licensing business and is the Chief Coordinator of the Intercross Creative Center in Sapporo.

	Alan J. Levi is a graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in Radio, TV and Film and has directed and/or photographed over 2000 hours of live and videotaped television around the world, and functioned as Director of Photography and Director for over 450 primetime network commercials before landing a job as Associate Producer at MGM. Director and/or Director of Photography on the acclaimed "Up Close and Personals" for the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, and over 350 hours of network television over the past nearly 30 years which included Movies-of-the-Week, pilots and miniseries such as "Battlestar Galactica", "The Incredible Hulk", "Columbo", "Knightrider 2000" and "The Stepford Children". Among the series he's directed are "ER", "NCIS", "JAG", "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer", "Magnum, P.I.", "Miami Vice", "Bionic Woman" and "Six Million Dollar Man". His directing credits have earned him a Cannes Film Festival Gold Lion, two New York International TV and Film Festival Grand Awards, two Clio Awards and several Silver Spikes.