Highbridge Film Festival works diligently to bring industry professionals as judges for each year's festival. We are currently making arrangements for the 2008 festival; we will provide more information shortly.
2008 Judges
Bruce Broughton
Bruce Broughton composes in almost every medium, from theatrical motion pictures and television to computer games, in styles ranging from large symphonic settings ("Silverado") to contemporary electronic scores (the recently Emmy-nominated "The Dive from Clausen's Pier").
Broughton has written the scores for such major motion pictures as "Tombstone," "Lost In Space," "Young Sherlock Holmes" and "Bambi II." With 23 nominations, he has received the Emmy award a record ten times, most recently for his score to the HBO movie, "Warm Springs." His television credits include the main title themes for "Jag" and Steven Spielberg's "Tiny Toon Adventures," as well as the scores for countless television series ("Dallas," "Quincy," "Hawaii Five-O") and movies and mini-series ("The Blue and the Gray," True Women"). His score for "Heart of Darkness" was the first orchestral score composed for a CD-ROM game.
Erik Lokkesmoe
Erik Lokkesmoe is the founder and managing partner of DIFFERENT DRUMMER, a social good media and marketing firm. Erik recently left AFG/Walden Media/Bristol Bay Productions where he served as the VP of Strategic Partnership and Outreach for AFG/Walden Media/Bristol Bay Productions.
An author, political and celebrity speechwriter, and former Capitol Hill press secretary, Erik has a MA in Public Communication from American University, with an emphasis in Social Marketing. He and his wife, Monica, have two children and split time between Malibu and Capitol Hill.
Clayton Ferguson
After a successful transition into artist and touring management in the music industry, Ferguson joined Walden Media, the film company that would bring C.S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia” to the big screen. While there, Ferguson developed a marketing approach to soundtrack promotion that was so successful he was appointed to expand these approaches into film marketing. Ferguson directed key marketing initiatives for “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” (2005), “Hoot” (2006), “Charlotte’s Web” (2006), and “Amazing Grace” (2007).
In 2007 Ferguson moved to Becker Group, an experiential marketing company. Clayton produced the promotional “Big Cheese Tour” for Disney/Pixar’s “Ratatouille” and is now producing “The Chronicles of Narnia – The Exhibit” opening in June 2008 – a 10,000 sq. ft. interactive and educational exhibit scheduled to tour internationally over five years. Ferguson lives with his wife in Eagle Rock, CA.