Diego Quemada-Diez

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Born in the iberian peninsula. He has lived in the American continent for the past two decades. Nationalized Mexican.
His first job in the film industry was in 1995, in Ken Loach’s film Land and Freedom as a camera assistant to the director of cinematography. A year later, he migrated to the USA where he continued his career in film. His graduation film at the American Film Institute (AFI) as writer/director/DOP, A Table is a Table, won the Best Cinematography award given by the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). He collaborated as camera operator with directors Spike lee, Alejandro Gonzalez-Iñarritu, Tony Scott, Fernando Meirelles, among others, as he wrote and directed his own short films and documentaries.
In 2006 he premiered his second short film I Want to Be A Pilot at the Sundance Film Festival. The film played at over 200 festivals and won over 50 awards, including Audience Award at La Mostra Sao Paulo Film Festival, Special Mention at the Amiens Film Festival. That same year he directed in Mexico his short documentary La Morena, that premiered at Morelia Film Festival in 2007.
In 2010 he won one of the scholarship awarded by Cinéfondation, which enabled him to participate in the Cannes Film Festival Atelier workshop with his first long- feature film, La Jaula de Oro. The film was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard Official Selection-, winning Un Certain Talent Award, Gillo Pontecorvo Award and François Chalais Special Mention Award. In its Mexican premiere at the Morelia Film Festival, the film won three awards: Audience Award, Best First Film and Press Guerrero Award. As a Director he has won Best Director at Vladivostock FF, Best New Director at the Chicago FF, Best Director at Tesalonica FF, Best Director at Havana New York FF, Best Director at Luis Buñuel Calanda FF in Spain, Best Director from Satjavit Ray Foundation at the London FF and Jean Renoir Award in France. It also won Best First Film in Lima, La Habana, República Dominicana and Best Film in Mumbai, Mar de Plata, Tesalonica, Zurich.
It won 9 Arieles from the Mexican Film Academy, including Best Film, Best First Film and Best Original Screenplay, as well as Best Iberoamerican Film at the Fenix Iberoamerican Awards held in Mexico City.
Until now the film has received 81 awards, becoming the most awarded Mexican film in history.
Filmography Writer/Director:
A Table Is A Table (2001)
I Want To Be A Pilot (2006) La Morena (2007)
La Jaula de Oro (2013)
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February- April 2016