Festival Awards
Excellence in Acting Award, Gael García Bernal 
An actor nearly all his life, Gael García Bernal began performing in stage productions with his parents in Mexico, and later studied at the Central School for Speech and Drama in London.
Bernal then appeared in several plays and short films before his major feature film debut in Alejandro Gonzalez's Amores Perros, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2000. He gained more attention for Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mamá También, where he starred opposite his close friend, Diego Luna.
He subsequently starred in the title role of Carlos Carrera's Academy Award-nominated El Crimen del padre Amaro [The Crime of Father Amaro]. Later Bernal was cast to play the revolutionary leader Che Guevara in Walter Salles's The Motorcycle Diaries.
Gael García Bernal also starred in Pedro Almodóvar's La mala educacíon [Bad Education]. Then worked on James Marsh's independent feature The King. And in Michel Gondry's "The Science of Sleep".
He also stars in Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu "Babel," and in Hector Babenco's "El Pasado". After "Rudo y Cursi", he will star in Fernando Meirelles' "Blindness".
He founded the film production company Canana with Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz in 2005. Since then, they've produced "JC Chavez", "Deficit", "Cochochi" and presently in post production, "Voy a explotar". Together they also run the Ambulante documentary film festival, that travels around several cities in Mexico.
García Bernal made his directorial debut with "Deficit",a low-budget feature film shot in Mexico. He shot with Hector Babenco his movie El Pasado. Also this year he worked with Lukas Moodysson in his movie Mammoth as well as Rudo y Cursi directed by Carlos Cuaron and Blindness with Fernando Meirelles.
Gael García participated in the play Together with the Vesturport Theatre Group in Island and México.
Jane Lynch to receive Faith Hubley Memorial Award
sponsored by the Ritchie-Davis Foundation
Jane cut her theatrical teeth at The Second City, Steppenwolf Theatre and in many church basements all over the greater Chicagoland area.
Film credits include the upcoming Julie & Julia, The Post Grad Survival Guide, Little Big Men, Spring Breakdown, Another Cinderella Story, The Rocker and the animated Space Chimps. Past film work includes Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration, A Mighty Wind and Best in Show, as well as Alvin and the Chipmunks, Walk Hard, Talladega Nights, The 40 Year old Virgin, Margaret Cho's Celeste and Bam Bam, Alan Cumming's Suffering Man's Charity, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Sleepover and Surviving Eden.
Recent television credits include Lovespring, a Lifetime original series, Desperate Housewives and Weeds. Jane will appear in the upcoming season of The L Word opposite Cybill Shepherd. She has recurring roles on Boston Legal, Two and a Half Men, Criminal Minds and The New Adventures of Old Christine.
Jane's play Oh Sister, My Sister! has had runs at the Tamarind Theatre and Bang Theater garnering the LA Weekly Comedy Ensemble of the Year Award.
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