Diego Briceño

Diego Briceño (Caracas, 1990) is a Venezuelan filmmaker based in the Basque Country. His work operates at the intersection of documentary and fiction, exploring memory, displacement, and intimate narratives that connect territories.

Trained between Venezuela and Spain, he obtained a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. His thesis short film Bolas Criollas, produced and art-directed by him, received an Honorable Mention and was selected at international festivals including the Brussels Short Film Festival and the Miami Short Film Festival.

In 2018 he returned to Spain and founded Panorámica Studio in Madrid, an audiovisual production company focused on art, music, and gastronomy through a documentary lens. During this period, he collaborated with various artists and cultural projects, developing a visual language centered on identity and contemporary portraiture.

Among his recent works is the music video Chakaito for the electronic project of Jimena Díaz, selected for the Latin American short film cycle “Extraña Latitud” in Bilbao. In this piece, he documents his return to Venezuela in 2024, capturing a personal perspective on the country through music.

After emigrating in 2017, his artistic practice became increasingly introspective, engaging with family history and the experience of exile through a stylized and poetic mise-en-scène. He currently develops works that move between archive, fiction, and formal experimentation, understanding cinema as a space for memory and permanence.

Read about Diego’s residency project below in his words…

During the residency, I will develop and refine the script of “Para no Desaparecer”, a project to be filmed this year in the French Basque Country. This period of focused work will allow me to strengthen its narrative structure and deepen its poetic and visual dimension ahead of production