Based between the SF Bay area, LA and NY, Sebastián Díaz is a filmmaker and recipient of two Emmy awards as an editor, winning for Atención! Murderer Next Door (NY Times OpDoc) and the interactive documentary {The And}. He also edited Takeover (NY Times OpDoc), which made the Academy Awards shortlist; as well as Cypress Hill: Insane in the brain for Showtime. His short documentary, Toñita's, premiered at MoMA Documentary Fortnight. His feature documentary Brilliant Soil won the Material Culture & Archeology Film Prize at the RAI Festival of Ethnographic Film. Sebastian received a PBS Emerging Filmmakers award with A Thousand Pines, a feature documentary funded by ITVS and Latino Public Broadcasting, broadcast on Independent Lens. He has collaborated with organizations such as Netflix, the BBC, Frontline and the Guggenheim Museum. He co-founded Bulbo art collective (2001-2011), which produced a documentary series broadcast in US and Mexico (Univision) about Tijuana-San Diego border culture where he was raised. Sebastián was a fellow of the 2019 Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room fellowship and sits on the board of directors of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Arts.