Diego Araujo
Directing
Biography
Diego Araujo is an Ecuadorian filmmaker. He was born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1975, he received a scholarship to study an MA in screenwriting at the University of Bergen in Norway and subsequently studied directing at Florida State University in the USA. After having worked as an editor in New York for several years he returned to Ecuador in 2012 to shoot his first feature film Feriado (2014), which premiered at Generation 14 at the Berlinale. His second feature Agujero negro was part of BAFICI 2018. He is currently working on his next film Fango.
Known For
A drama set in turbulent, turn-of-the-millennium Ecuador and centered on a young man who begins to develop complicated feelings for Juano after he saves him from a beating.
Holiday
November 7th, 2001. After a seventy years absence, the Ecuadorian national soccer team is close to qualifying for the first time to a Soccer World Cup. This documentary follows the events that took place during that historic date, when a whole country lived under the shadow of a soccer game.
Ecuador vs. el resto del mundo
Afraid to face upcoming parenthood and the ultimate deadline for his long-awaited novel, a once-promising writer develops a crush on a defiant muse, the 16-year-old girl next door, and escapes into a second adolescence, alienating his partner and those who care about him.