Daniel Giménez Cacho
This year, the 9th Todos Santos Film Festival welcomes the multi award winning actor Daniel Gimenez Cacho as its prestigious guest who has starred in over 50 Mexican and European productions. Born in Spain and living in Mexico he has directed and acted in many films, TV series, soap operas and plays. Receiving the Silver Ariel (equivalent to the Oscars) for "Best Actor" in such films as "Nicotina," "Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer," "Deep Crimson" and "Crono," he also was granted the Spanish Premio Touluse Cine España award and the Onda award for the film "No Shame."
He is also the narrator of "Y Tu Mamá También," starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. Gimenez Cacho's talents also include working with many well-known directors including Pedro Almódovar, Arturo Ripstein and Guillermo del Toro. Rounding out the list of his cinematic credits he has also been seen in the Bicentennial Mexican TV series "Cries for Death and Freedom" as well as "Crazy About Love."

Maya Goded
Maya Goded Colichio (n.1970) is a Mexican photographer who has been part of the Magnum Agency since the year 2002 as a member candidate. At the age of fifteen she started studying photography, first in Coyoacan and then at ICP (International Center for Photography) in New York between 1989 and 1992. Since 1993 she has worked as an assistant to Graciela Iturbide. At the age of twenty-three she received the first prize at the Mother Jones Foundation and a year later published "Black Earth," whose subject is life in the black community of coastal Oaxaca.

An important part of her work deals with disadvantaged groups in society and the roles of women and religion. In 2006 she published her second book, entitled "Solitude Plaza," a black and white vision of the life of prostitutes.

She has received various prizes, such as the World Press Photo prize in 1996, the Fotopress '01 prize, the prize given by the W. Eugene Smith Foundation in 2001, and the Guggenheim Foundation in 2003. In 2010 she received the "Price Claus" prize given by the foundation of the same name and the government of the Netherlands.

César Talamantes
Cesar Talamante graduated from the Center of Cinematographic studies of the University of Mexico and also has a BA in economy from the Autonomous University of Baja California South. He has received awards and special mentions:
First Prize in the International Festival of University Film Valladolid, Spain, with the documentary "The Game," 2005; Official Selection in San Sebastian 2007, Algarve Film Festival (Portugal) 2008 and in the XXX Festival of Shorts Clermont Ferrand, France, 2008, with "The Waves of Summer" his first feature length documentary "The Other Californians,"which investigates the passionate and fragile existence of the ranchers of the Baja California South desert Mexico, through interesting and unknown characters.

Esther Regina
Esther Regina has lived in many European countries which has enhanced her acting career. She has acted in roles in Spanish, French, German, Italian and English in film and theater. From an early age she pursued training in theatre, voice and dance. She studied Dramatic Arts in Brussels, and she founded and acted for many years with the Teatro Español de Bruselas. She holds a university degree in French Philology (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and has furthered her studies at the Universities of Sorbonne, Grenoble, and Metz (France), and Saarland (Germany). She went on to work for the European Parliament in Luxembourg and later in Brussels, again for the European Union. Since her return to Spain, she has worked in theatre, television and films under the direction of several directors including Carlos Iglesias in his feature film "Ispansi".