Antonio Franceschi began his career in various production capacities on independent films and television productions. His extensive twenty five year career in television led him to produce several broadcast shows including Siempre Caliente and Latinos on the Move for various networks including Telemundo. He has won several awards for his outstanding work including a CAN Fest Award in 1990 for his cutting edge public service announcements. He has written and directed several indie films including his most recent work, “Urban Poet,” which debuted at the 19th Annual Chicago Latino Film Festival and was praised as “a film to watch” by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Roger Ebert. He has traveled extensively throughout the country lecturing at numerous universities on the topic of independent filmmaking and Latinos in film. Antonio is the producer and director of Chicago's Puerto Rican Story.

Gloricelly Franceschi is an independent filmmaker and educator. She studied writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago and received her graduate degree in adult education from National-Louis University. As a former professor, she has lectured on Latino issues at various colleges and universities across the continental United States. In 2002, she produced and directed a short film entitled, “Nam: Memories still in ambush.” She has since co produced several projects including, “Urban Poet,” an independent film, “Latinos on the Move,” a television pilot intended for PBS and the PR Oral History Project, a project dedicated to documenting and preserving the oral history of Chicago's early Puerto Rican migrants. She produced and wrote the script for Chicago's Puerto Rican Story with her husband and film collaborator, Antonio Franceschi. Gloricelly also narrates the documentary.