Diego Sarmiento Pagán

Biography

Diego Sarmiento produced The Condor Daughter, which premiered at TIFF 2025; and Through Rocks and Clouds, which premiered at the Berlinale 2024 and received a Special Mention in the Generation Kplus section. Diego Sarmiento's first feature-length documentary as director and producer, Green River: The Time of the Yakurunas, premiered at the Berlinale Forum 2017 and at MoMA Doc Fortnight 2018. Mothers of the Land (2019), his second documentary, premiered at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2020, he won the Berlinale Talents Footprints - Mastercard Enablement Programme award, with Wim Wenders as jury president, for the "Semillas Project," which involved taking the film Mothers of the Land to schools in rural communities in the Peruvian Andes as part of an impact campaign. His latest documentary, Veins of the Amazon, premiered at DOK Leipzig and won the Best Peruvian Film award at the Lima Film Festival. Diego contributed a video statement to the museum's exhibition on Werner Herzog: "The Ecstatic Truth," curated by the Deutsche Kinemathek-Museum für Film und Fernsehen. Diego studied Audiovisual Communication at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and earned a Master's degree in Documentary Filmmaking from the EICTV Film School in Cuba. He is an Impact Producer, a Nia Tero Storytelling fellow, and co-founder of the QINE cinema in Cusco.