[1] Palio won the best documentary editing award at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
[2] Spender was born in Italy but moved to England when she was fourteen.
[3] She received a degree in Anthropology and Art History at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
She then went on to enroll in the post-graduate documentary directing course at the National Film and Television School also in England.
[4] Spender is married to and sometimes collaborates with the film editor Valerio Bonelli.