Kristal Sotomayor is a bilingual Latinx documentary filmmaker, festival programmer, and freelance journalist based in Philadelphia. Currently, they are in post-production on Expanding Sanctuary, an independent short documentary about the historic end to police surveillance organized by nonprofit Juntos and the Latinx immigrant community in South Philadelphia. Kristal is a MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute Visiting Fellow, If/Then North Shorts Resident, DCTV Docu Work-In-Progress Lab Fellow, Justice For My Sister Sci-Fi Screenwriting Lab Fellow, Good Pitch Local: Philadelphia Fellow, and NeXtDoc Fellow. They serve as the Programming Director for the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, Co-Founder/Journalist for ¡Presente! Media, and are on the Editorial Board for the film journal cinéSPEAK. Formerly, Kristal was the Communications and Outreach Coordinator at Scribe Video Center. Kristal’s journalistic background includes having written for ITVS, AL DÍA, WHYY, and Documentary Magazine. They write the Latinx cinema column “Cine alzando voz” for cinéSPEAK. They are a recipient of the Sundance Institute Press Inclusion Initiative, TIFF Media Inclusion Initiative, International Documentary Association (IDA) Magazine Editorial Fellowship, NBC University Visual Storytelling During Breaking News, and the Lenfest Next Generation Fund. WEBSITE

Marángeli Mejía Rabell is a Puerto Rico-born, Philadelphia-based cultural producer and community development practitioner whose work is centered on cross sector partnerships, collective impact arts & culture as a tool for social change and community revitalization. As Co Founder of AfroTaino Productions, she curates, co-designs and executes arts/culture programming, campaigns, special events and projects in public and private arena targeting multicultural audiences. Marángeli also serves as the Festival Director of the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival. Some of her most recent collaborations include Pepon Osorio’s reForm at Tyler Contemporary and BrideNext, a Building Audience Demand project with Marty Pottenger and Bienvenidos Blancos with Team Sunshine Performance Corporation. WEBSITE

Neyda Martinez is the communications strategist for public television’s documentary series, AMERICA REFRAMED. For 7 years, Neyda worked at POV supporting campaigns of over 65 acclaimed films. She earned an MPA from Columbia University in 2008. She was Director of National Engagement for PBS’ documentary, LATINO AMERICANS and she produced the documentary film LUCKY. As a consultant, she’s served Hachette Book Group USA, NYC’s Mayor’s Office of Adult Education, and WNYC and NPR’s “The Takeaway.” She is on the board of directors of The Association of American Cultures, Women Make Movies and Bronx-based dance company, Pepatian. Prior board service includes of Third World Newsreel and NALIP/National Association of Latino Independent Producers. WEBSITE

Maria Luisa Santos is a Costa Rican filmmaker and editor currently based in Mexico City and Costa Rica. She holds a bachelor's degree in film from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses on Latin America, the environmental and immigration. Her latest short documentary "Café de Temporada" won at IndieGrits19' and her short fictional film “TER” premiered at SXSW20’ and was broadcasted by PBS. Maria Luisa also worked as an assistant editor in the award winning feature documentary Pahokee. She is currently editing and producing Xa-lyu K’ya, a documentary about the sale of carbon bonds in an indigenous community in Oaxaca. Her work has been shown in The New Yorker, SXSW, PBS, New Orleans FF, Femme Frontera, Philadelphia Latino FF, among others. WEBSITE

Sabrina Schmidt Gordon is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and impact strategist. Her editing debut won an Emmy, and she has continued to distinguish herself as a producer, editor, and director. Sabrina was a Women at Sundance career fellow, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). In 2018, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for QUEST, which premiered at Sundance. It is a New York Times Critics’ Pick, and was nominated for a Peabody, two Emmys, and an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Sabrina is featured in VOGUE, discussing the making of QUEST, representation, and disrupting American narratives about race. Sabrina's directing debut is the Emmy-nominated film, BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez, which she co-directed, produced and edited. She won the Best Film Directed by a Woman of Color Award at the African Diaspora Film Festival. She also produced and edited DOCUMENTED, the story of Pulitzer Prize-winning undocumented journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas. Sabrina is also produces and consults on impact campaigns, is co-chair of the Black Documentary Collective, and is a sought after speaker and panelist.

Sarah Garrahan is a documentary producer and editor from San Antonio, Texas (occupied Somi Se’k land). She is based in Los Angeles, CA (occupied Tongva land). She co-produced and was an additional editor on the hybrid documentary The Infiltrators by Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 and was awarded the NEXT Audience and Innovator Awards. She edited the Emmy-nominated feature documentary Building the American Dream along with director Chelsea Hernandez, which premiered at SXSW in 2019 and was broadcast nationally on PBS. She edited the short documentary Status Pending by Priscilla González Sainz, which was supported by IF/Then Shorts and was acquired by Al Jazeera. She holds an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. She is a former Flaherty Fellow (2013) and Felsman Fellow (2015). She is currently editing the feature documentary Silent Beauty by Jasmin Mara López. WEBSITE

Selena Yip was born in the Philadelphia Area and was raised with strong familial and community ties to Philadelphia’s Chinatown. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017 with a double major in psychology and anthropology. In 2018, she produced Staying Put: Stories of Chinatown’s Resistance as part of Scribe Video Center's Precious Places Philadelphia history project, which documented the history of the Philadelphia Chinatown community’s resilience in the face of urban development and gentrification. While working on the documentary, Selena met and joined the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival team and is now working as their Communications Director.

Audiovisual sound engineer graduated from the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba). Audiovisual producer graduated from the University of Costa Rica. She has worked on projects for Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru, the United States, Venezuela, Uruguay, Brazil and Germany. She has worked as a production sound mixer in six fiction and documentary feature films, among which “Aurora” by Paz Fábrega stands out, which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival (2021) and won the award for best film at the Costa Rica International Film Festival (2021). She has also recorded sound in more than a dozen short films and a television series. As a sound designer she has worked on fifteen short films, among which stands out “Isabel” by Sara Shazli, winner of the best short film at the Cairo International Film Festival (Egypt) and “Vaivén” by Nitza Platzer, winner of the best film award at AluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Canada). She was selected as a sound engineer at the Guadalajara Talents (Mexico, 2020) and as a sound director at the Castello Errante international cinema residency (Italy, 2021).

Annie Diaz is a Puerto Rican documentary and fiction filmmaker based in Lancaster, PA. Recently graduating from Muhlenberg College, her studies included Media and Communication, Film Studies, and a minor in Documentary Filmmaking, which has strengthened her skills and understanding of documentary work within social contexts. Her work focuses on telling stories of communities of the historically disadvantaged with the intention to nuance conversations regarding their social and political issues. Her recent documentary, Para Ti, centralizes the conflicts Puerto Rican women face in relation to beauty standards, womanhood, as a result of migrating to the United States. Through this documentary, she hopes to continue to spread more awareness of serious, systemic issues Latinx communities, specifically undocumented immigrants in this case, face throughout the United States. WEBSITE