Alejandro Montoya Marin was born in Laredo Texas and raised in Mexico (Merida and Monterrey). Since a very young age, he has been interested in film. Alejandro went to school for marketing and then attended Vancouver Film School in Canada where he specialized in Directing. He later moved to Albuquerque to join the growing film industry.
His narrative work includes: Intrepido (2009), The Princess and the Musician (2013), The Joneses (2014), Low/Fi (2015), Monday (2016), and Leslie (2017). His films have screened in numerous film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival, Raindance, The Napa Valley Film Festival, Hollyshorts, and many more. In addition to narrative film, Alejandro also has an intense love for music and has directed many music vídeos. He has directed for Sleigh Bells, Chikita Violenta, Motopony, Grimlin, and Stem Ivory.
Most recently, Alejandro appeared on the El Rey Network-produced documentary show, REBEL WITHOUT A CREW: THE SERIES. With a budget of only $7000 and 14 days of shooting time, Alejandro was able to adapt his award-winning short film, MONDAY, into a feature film. The movie premiered at special screening during the 2018 SXSW FESTIVAL and most recently was screened to a sold-out audience at the SOHO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. The film is currently on the film festival circuit and continues to pile up rave reviews. Alejandro is now currently working on both his second and third feature film projects.
Lisa Lucas, is a professional writer/producer/actor.
She graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in French Literature and Theater Arts.
For the last 25 years, Lisa has produced, written and developed over 36 TV series which include the popular ABC series The Bachelor, Work of Art on Bravo and the Emmy winning My 1st Time on NBC. She has also produced several award winning feature documentaries with Silver Bullet Productions including, A Thousand Voices, which debuted on PBS in 2015 as well as the Emmy nominated Defending The Fire, in 2017 and The Power of Place, currently in production and slated to premiere in 2021.
In addition to her partnership in LikeMinds, Lisa was a part of the Santa Fe University of Art & Design Film School academic community for 4 years where she taught Advanced Production and Finance, Indie Film 101 as well as History of Women in Cinema courses.
She is also the newly elected President of New Mexico Women in Film (2020), hosts and writes a weekly podcast with fellow film critic and writer/producer, Belle Allen as the Front Row Divas on youtube and just recently began a fb LIVE cooking series with co-host Debrianna Mansini called #coronakitchen
Davey Thompson is an actor, stunt double and stunt coordinator who has appeared in Feature Films and Television shows such as:
Westworld (2016-2020),
Lethal Weapon (2016-2019),
Arrested Development (2003- ),
Lucifer (2015), and more.
He is an experienced stunt/race driver, pilot/flight instructor, equestrian, mechanic, scuba diver, and surfer. In 2004 he received an Emmy for his role on a PSA for the City of Los Angeles.
“When No One Believes In you, that’s when you have to believe in yourself, even more” (Edgar, K. 2017)
Emmy Award winner, Celebrity Hairstylist and Fashion Designer Kenneth “K-Bobby” Edgar grew up in Jamaica, in a family where his father, a typical Jamaican male of that era, was appalled that his son showed early interest in women’s fashion. Fortunately, K-Bobby’s mother was a forward-thinker, believing that her son’s obvious clothing talent was a gift that should be appreciated and developed, encouraged his interest. Starting at the unbelievable age of 12, K-Bobby quickly became a seasoned designer and dressmaker in his village, sewing gowns for brides, bride’s maids, beauty queens, graduations and balls.
He realized his gifts were real and rare and, wanting to augment his natural abilities with more formal training, at the age of 17 he enrolled at Madame Francois’s School of Fashion in Kingston. K-Bobby earned an Emmy in 1995 for his work as hair stylist for the 1994 CBS mini-series, “The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All”.
K-bobby’s designs have been photographed by many of the top fashion photographers, with designs featured in issues of several popular magazines.
Jesús Hernandez was born in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico. He completed his basic studies in the city of Tijuana Baja California, worked and did his first professional internships at the Tijuana Cultural Center in the area of dissemination and marketing of events, where he had the opportunity to get to know the world of beauty pageants, even the most important in this state, “Our Beauty Baja California”.
In 2000 he returned to Chihuahua to complete his higher studies in industrial engineering. During this time he works as a designer of stylized typical costumes, participating three times in Our Beauty Mexico, representing the state of Chihuahua, thus giving him the opportunity to participate in different competitions in this state.
From 2004 to 2007 he began to participate as coordinator of beauty pageants for Teen and Miss at the local and state level, taking different workshops and courses in modeling, image projection, makeup, fashion, style, protocol, etiquette, communication and scenic development, production of beauty pageants and fashion events. In 2007 he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In 2015 he returned to beauty pageants and Fashion Shows for teens, founding E.H Modeling Agency & Academy in 2016, while also acquiring different franchises for beauty contests.