Patricia Boero is the Executive Director of Latino Public Broadcasting ( LPB), a nonprofit organization founded by actor and director Edward James Olmos in 1998. LPB is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, among others, and supports the development, production, and distribution via public television of programs of interest to Hispanic communities in the United States (www.lpbp.org). She served as Director of the International Program at the Sundance Institute (1997–2001), founded by Robert Redford to promote the development of independent film and cultural exchange with filmmakers from Latin America, Europe, and other countries around the world. She studied film, theater, law, and literature at the University of New South Wales in Australia. She worked at SBS-TV, Australia’s multicultural public television network, and at Film Australia as Director of Documentaries. She lived in Cuba from 1985 to 1990, working for Prensa Latina, Televisión Latina, BBC Radio, and CNN, producing documentaries such as "Paraguay, the Forgotten Dictatorship" and "La Hora del Pueblo" (a chronicle of the end of the dictatorship in Uruguay), among others.
At this conference, she spoke about the importance of screenwriting in film, plot construction, characters and dialogue, the different structures of a screenplay and literary adaptation, and screenwriting and documentary film.