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The 2008 Film Festival Judges are:

Tom DeSanto

Tom DeSanto is a writer/producer and a self described pop culture junkie. Tom's the proud owner of more than 30,000 comic books and dreamed of bringing the characters he loved as a kid to life in Hollywood. X-Men was first on his list and besides producing, DeSanto co-wrote the story, spawning a billion dollar movie franchise. DeSanto developed Battlestar Galactica for Universal Television, eventually finding a home on Sci-Fi. Tom still dreams of bringing his full vision for Galactica to the big screen one day. In 2003, DeSanto returned as part of the guiding creative team for X2: X-Men United. That same year, DeSanto went after Transformers another dormant property that he was a fan of since childhood. Together with Don Murphy, DeSanto set the project up with Dreamworks and Paramount. DeSanto will return as producer of Transformers 2 for Summer 2009.

Borys Kit

As senior film reporter at the The Hollywood Reporter, Borys Kit covers many aspects of the entertainment industry, from script sales and A-list castings to studio upheavals, on location shoots and the Oscars. He has appeared as an industry expert on Good Morning America, Today Show, and CBS Evening News, as well as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the BBC, and acted as a judge at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival. Borys has made a name for himself covering comic book, horror, fantasy and other genre movies, and was one of the first reporters in Hollywood to seriously cover Comic-Con and comic book movies. In 2006, he moderated the very first Marvel Studios panel at Comic-Con. Borys was employed for many years at a comic book shop conveniently named the Comic Book Shoppe in Ottawa, Canada. When he was five, he ran away from home after his mother refused to let him watch Spider-Man on TV. He returned a few minutes later.