Gloria Benito

Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1981, she studied Audiovisual Communication at the University of Salamanca and subsequently earned a Master’s degree in Film Editing at the Septima Ars School in Madrid. After a few years dedicated to audiovisual editing for several film and TV production firms, in 2008 she began to work with the technical crews responsible for film screenings at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Film Festival and at a number of international festivals including San Sebastián, Seville, Gijón and Brussels. She is currently a programmer and member of the selection committee of the Las Palmas International Film Festival and continues to work for other festivals as a specialist in digital cinema.