2020 Judges
Ralph Score
Ralph Score is one of the festival founders and acts as the Technical Director where he oversees all qualifications for entries as well as DCP conversions for the screenings. An award winning producer/director/engineer with over 45 years of TV and film production experience, Ralph holds an Arts degree in Broadcast Communications from Miller Institute. He is currently employed as a Media Production Specialist and Web Content Coordinator for Valley TeleCom Group where he has produced over 1900 TV shows and won a National Telechoice award for local content. This is his second year as a judge.
Luis Maria Lopez Benitez
Luis Lopez is an independent producer and media professional who currently lives in Asuncion, Paraguay. He holds a degree in Broadcasting Communications from ITT Technical Institute and is a former producer at Channel 33 Univision in Phoenix, Arizona. Luis was on-hand three years ago at the festival as a visiting photographer and correspondent and says to not be surprised if he makes another surprise visit to the festival in 2019. Luis is currently doing media coverage of the World Tennis Tour for his home nation of Paraguay. This is his fourth year as a judge for the festival.
Jen Barney
Jen Barney is on faculty at Valley Union High School in Elfrida, AZ. where she teaches Media Production, Photography, Art and Journalism. Jen holds a BA in History from Arizona State University and has been teaching for over 20 years at the Middle and High School levels. She was recognized as the 2017 Cochise County High School Teacher of the Year. This is Jen’s second year as a judge at the festival.
Timothy Bryant
Timothy Bryant is an Executive Producer and owner of Caribou Moving Pictures, an award winning film and TV production company located in Phoenix, Arizona. Growing up in Burbank, Tim got a taste for working in film production early on from commercials to feature films that eventually lead to Caribou’s feature film production of “Planet of the Killer Robots”. He recently completed producing the Indie short “Retrocausality” and is working on a script for a Sci-Fi/Action Adventure short. This is Tim’s third year judging at the festival.
All entries are judged on a 100 point scoring system for overall production attributes as well as individual disciplines (directing, editing, etc.). Best of Fest is a combination of overall and discipline scores added together.
