Diego Céspedes studied Film & Television at the Universidad de Chile, where he worked as a cinematographer and editor on several shorts. In 2018, he wrote and directed his first short, El verano del león eléctrico, which won the Cinéfondation First Prize at the Festival de Cannes and participated in Nest at San Sebastian Festival, where it received the Panavision Award. The short film was selected for festivals including Sundance, Palm Springs, Biarritz and AFI Fest. His first feature film, La misteriosa mirada del flamenco / The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamenco, was selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation and Ikusmira Berriak in 2020. The short film Las criaturas que se derriten bajo el sol screened in the Semaine de la Critique at the Festival de Cannes.
Festival de San Sebastián
