Sebastian Diaz is a filmmaker and recipient of two Emmy awards as an editor.
His work has shown at MoMA Documentary Fortnight, PBS' Independent Lens, Frontline, Netflix, Showtime, NY Times Op-Docs, and the BBC.
About
Based between the SF Bay area, LA and NY, Sebastián Díaz is a filmmaker and recipient of two Emmy awards as an editor, winning for Atención! Murderer Next Door (NY Times OpDoc) and the interactive documentary {The And}. He also edited Takeover (NY Times OpDoc), which made the Academy Awards shortlist; as well as Cypress Hill: Insane in the brain for Showtime. His short documentary, Toñita's, premiered at MoMA Documentary Fortnight. He directed and edited the award winning feature documentary Brilliant Soil. Sebastian received a PBS Emerging Filmmakers grant with A Thousand Pines, a feature documentary funded by ITVS and Latino Public Broadcasting, broadcast on Independent Lens. As an editor and independent filmmaker he has worked for organizations such as Netflix, the BBC, Frontline and the Guggenheim Museum. He co-founded Bulbo art collective (2001-2011), which produced a documentary series broadcast in US and Mexico (Univision) about Tijuana-San Diego border culture where he was raised. Sebastián was a fellow of the 2019 Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room fellowship and sits on the board of directors of UnionDocs, NYC.
