Diego Briceño

Diego Briceño is a media creator born in Colombia with over 20 years of experience as a producer, director, designer, and editor of social, fiction, and transmedia documentaries in Montreal, Canada. He holds a BFA in Film (Film Production) and a Graduate Certificate in Digital Technologies and Art Practice in Design from Concordia University. Driven by a passion for storytelling, ethics, and collaboration, his work often focuses on issues of exploitation, the environment, and North-South relations. He has directed and/or produced eight documentary projects, including a television series, an interactive project, and a short fiction film, all of which have been broadcast on television and/or screened at national and international film festivals. Through his company Cuiba Media Inc., he specializes in the co-development of transmedia projects with a strong international reach. He is the co-founder and current president of Makila, a non-profit media incubation platform, and is the co-creator and lead developer of the Cuban Hat Project, a documentary pitching competition that has been presented at events such as RIDM (Montreal), Hot Docs (Toronto), IDFA (Amsterdam), and Sunny Side of the Doc (La Rochelle).He also sits on the board of directors of the Alter-ciné Foundation, which provides financial support to documentary filmmakers from the Global South.