Les nouveaux explorateurs diego bunuel biography

French-American filmmaker

Diego Buñuel (born 21 July 1975 in Paris) is a French-American filmmaker and the host and director of the National Geographic Channel series Don't Tell My Mother.

He is also the host of a television news show in France called Les Nouveaux Explorateurs, broadcast on Canal Plus. In 2014, he was appointed Director of Documentaries and Factual Entertainment at Canal Plus.

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In 2018, he joined Netflix as Director of Original Documentaries in Europe.

Biography

He is the grandson of Spanish-Mexican film director Luis Buñuel and son of filmmakers Juan Luis Buñuel and Joyce Buñuel.

Diego received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University, majoring in journalism, minoring in political science and then interned for various newspapers such as The Times Picayune in New Orleans, The San Francisco Examiner, the Saint Louis Post Dispatch, the Miami Herald and the Chicago Tribune before going to work for the Sun Sentinel as lea