The Letter

Diego Barraza, (El Salvador, 1973) Sussex based Cinematographer and Director. Full member of Directors UK. Winner of 2018 Best Short Film Audience Award at the Tallahassee Film Festival. In 2000, he won the Mole & Richardson’s Hollywood “Millennium Lighting Contest”. His feature documentaries, short films, music promos and commercial work have aired internationally. His experimental film ‘Different trains, distant memories’, played alongside a live performance of the music of Steve Reich and his live film work toured the UK with The Modulus Quartet supported by the UK Arts Council. In still photography he has collaborated with La Vanguardia newspaper, El Temps magazine, A-10 New European Architecture magazine among others. His photography work on the earthquake that struck El Salvador in 2001 was showcased in a book published by the Barcelona City Council. Diego was for three years the director of the Cadaqués Latin America Film Cycle. In September 2011 Diego was invited by the United Nations Development Fund to deliver a new media workshop at the Young Indigenous Leaders of America Conference in Quito, Ecuador and by Cultural Survival International to teach Participatory Video to Mayan youth in Guatemala. Diego also teaches film-making to Sussex youth and runs his own production company SaGuarda Studios Ltd.