Isabel Fondevila graduated from the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain, with a major in Psychology, and from the Complutense University in Madrid with a Masters in Social and Market Research. She started working in film at San Francisco’s experimental media gallery Artists’ Television Access in 2003. She co-directed and curated the ATA Film & Video Festival from 2006-2011, and joined The Roxie Theater as executive director in 2013. She has been the director of programming since 2016, when she launched RoxCine, The Roxie's Spanish language year-round film program, to provide a culturally relevant cinema experience for the Latinx community in San Francisco.

Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan has served as U.S. Programmer and Selection Committee member of the Venice Film Festival since 2008. Currently she also holds the position of Founding Artistic Director of the Sag Harbor Cinema. Her retrospectives have been featured at renowned institutions worldwide, including Film Forum, The Metrograph and the Museum of Moving Image in New York, the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, La Cinémathèque Française in Paris, and the Brisbane and Melbourne Film Festivals. A longtime arts correspondent of the Italian daily newspaper “il manifesto”, she has also contributed to International film publication such as Cahiers du Cinema and Film Comment. Among her books are monographs devoted to Clint Eastwood, John Carpenter, George Romero, Walter Hill, John Milius, Robert Aldrich, William Friedkin and John Landis. Her last volume, Altman, was published by Abrams Books in 2014.

Haden Guest is Director of the Harvard Film Archive where he curates the HFA cinematheque and its motion picture, manuscript and photographic collections.He has curated film programs for the Viennale, the Oberhausen Film Festival and the Gulbenkian Foundation and Museum in Lisbon. He also oversees the Harvard Film Archive’s preservation program which focuses on independent and avant-garde cinema. As Senior Lecturer in Harvard’s Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Guest teaches courses on film history and archival practice. He holds a PhD in Film History from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2015 Guest was awarded a Medal of Cultural Merit by the Secretary of Culture of Portugal, in recognition for his work curating and researching Portuguese cinema. He was a producer of Soon-Mi Yoo’s Songs from the North, winner of major prizes including a Golden Leopard at the 2014 Locarno Film Festival, the DocLisboa Prize for Best First Feature and the Jury Prize at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival.

Jaie Laplante is Executive Director & Co-Director of Programming of Miami Film Festival (since 2010) and oversees the art house cinema Tower Theater Miami. He is a recipient of Spain’s Knight’s Cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica for his career work in the exploration of Spanish cinema in the Americas. In 2017 he was named one of 25 Knight Champions, honoring passionate individuals in Miami who love the arts, on the occasion of The John S. & James L. Knight Foundation’s tenth anniversary of the Knight Arts Challenge. He has served on numerous international juries and film panels, as well as lectured at events including festivals and markets.

Born in Mexico City, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on Mexican cultural institutions with a focus on literature, cinema and gastronomy. He is the author of seven books including Screening Neoliberalism. Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012. The most recent of his fifteen edited collections is Mexican Literature as World Literature. His public writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders and other publications in Mexico and the United States. He serves as editor of two book series: Latin American Cinema at SUNY Press and Critical Mexican Studies at Vanderbilt University Press. He is a former president of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, and a past Kluge Chair for the Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress.

Josh Siegel is the Curator of the Deparment of Film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, for which he has organized many exhibitions. In 2007 he won the Lee Tenenbaum Award. He has acquired many films and artistic installations that have become part of MoMA’s permanent collection. Josh Siegel co-founded To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, a festival that celebrates the effort to preserve and restore films by filmmakers, distributors, studios and archives around the world. Siegel is currently a member of the Board of Cinema Tropical, the non-profit association dedicated to Latin-American cinema in the United States. He is the author of many publications, essays, catalogues and monographs, and has been a jury member at various international festivals.

Juan Cáceres is an independent multi-media producer and festival programmer as well as an award-winning director of films. He has served as a programming associate for Tribeca All Access, an initiative of the Tribeca Film Festival that aids and supports underserved minorities in the film industry. He was the co-creator and writer for the blog, “LatinoBuzz,” on IndieWire, and his writing has appeared in Huffington Post, Remezcla, and various other media outlets. He is currently a head programmer and moderator for Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City and has spoken at schools and on panels all over the U.S.

Cristina Ibarra’s twenty-year film practice visualizes a border-crossing storytelling aesthetic rooted in her homeland of the Texas-Mexico border. Ibarra’s new feature documentary, The Infiltrators, , is a docu-thriller about undercover undocumented activists. It won the NEXT Audience and Innovator Awards at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. The New York Times calls her previous award-winning documentary about South Texas border royalty, Las Marthas, “a striking alternative portrait of border life.” It premiered on Independent Lens in 2014. Earlier, in 2008, USA Today described The Last Conquistador, her POV-broadcast feature documentary about a monumental sculptor with a tragic historical blindspot, as “heroic.” Her award-winning directorial debut, Dirty Laundry: A Homemade Telenovela, was broadcast on PBS. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, NYFA, CPB/PBS, the Latino Producers Academy, Firelight, the Sundance Women’s Initiative and Creative Capital, among others. Ibarra is a 2019 Soros Art and a Rauschenberg fellow.

Alejandro Riera is a Chicago-based film critic and publicist who has worked with the Chicago International Film Festival, the Chicago Latino Film Festival and the Gene Siskel Film Center's Panorama Latinx initiative. He currently serves as the Movies & TV Editor at Mano: a Latino Counterculture Magazine.