
Raul Benitez
Raul Benitez is the lead programmer for Full Spectrum’s annual shorts program, Chicagoland Shorts. He also currently programs for Comfort Film at Comfort Station Logan Square and at The Nightingale Cinema, while working as a screener for The Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Twisted Oyster Film Festival, and CIMM Fest. He is also a member of the Panorama Latinx Community Council and IFP Chicago. In 2015 and 2017, Raul was named in the Chicago Screen Gems by Newcity and The Chicago Reader.

Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez
Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez is the current Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and also works at Video Data Bank. She holds an MA in Film Studies from the University of Iowa and a BA from the University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez.

Shayna Connelly
Shayna Connelly’s films explore boundaries between documentary, experimental and fiction forms. The anthology, A Memory Palace for Ghosts, shows how hauntings arise from trauma, routine, the search for truth and the aftermath of grief. Her current work explores the disconnect between perception and identity for feminists, artists and mothers.


