Diego Buñuel

Diego Buñuel is a French film-maker born in 1975 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.

Biography

He is the grandson of Spanish film director Luis Buñuel.

Diego received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University, majoring in journalism, minoring in politics, 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 lead crime reporter.

In 2000, he did his French military service in Bosnia and was stationed in Sarajevo—which led him to a specialization in war reporting.

Back in France, he started working for the press agency CAPA as a war correspondent. He covered 9/11, the 2001 US intervention in Afghanistan, was embedded with the US Marine Corps in 2003 for a month as his unit traveled from Kuwait to Baghdad. After that he went on to follow the Second Congo War, the 2004 tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Yasser Arafat's funeral in Ramallah and did a special report on the rise of evangelical Christians in George Bush's America, among some 50 other news stories.

In 2006 he shot the first episode of the series Don't Tell My Mother, co-produced by Canal+ and the National Geographic Channel, where he offers a new look on rarely traveled areas affected by conflicts and wars such as Afghanistan, Colombia, North Korea, Congo, Venezuela, Israel, Iran, Iraq, The Balkans (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo) and Pakistan.

In 2008 Buñuel created his own production studio named Explorer Productions.