Víctor Hugo Robles (1969) is a journalist and a gay activist, and also known as El Che de los Gays. In the 1990s, he joined the Movimiento de Liberación Homosexual (Gay Liberation Movement) and hosted and produced Triángulo Abierto (Open Triangle), Chile's first gay and lesbian radio program. Since 1996 he has performed public actions as El Che de los Gays, integrating the demands of the gay movement into public installations and performances. His work was documented in the film El Che de los Gays, which premiered at the Festival Internacional de Cine Gay/Lésbico/Trans de Bilbao in 2005. Since 2000, he has served as the editor of VIVOPOSITIVO, the magazine published by Chile's Coordinadora Nacional de Personas Viviendo con VIH/SIDA (National Organization for People Living with HIV/AIDS). His book Bandera Hueca. Historia del Movimiento Homosexual de Chile was published in April 2008.

Carmen Oquendo-Villar (Harvard Ph.D) is the Jacob Javits Fellow at New York University’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in Tisch School of the Arts, where she is continuing her filmmaking training and a Fellow at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She is completing a book on Chile’s 1973 Coup as a performance and media event, with Augusto Pinochet as its leading political icon. As a visual artist and filmmaker (www.oquendovillar.com), she has focused her work around issues of gender and sexuality, having completed a series of film portraits of members of the Boston and Puerto Rico Latin@ trans community. She is currently working on a documentary with José Correa about beauty ideals and practices amongst the Puerto Rican transgender community. She is currently curating a film and video program for the 2009 Encuentro in Bogotá about citizenship and cultural rights, after having served for 6 years as part of the Boston Latino International Film Festival’s curatorial team.