Diego Velasco

WriterDirector Diego Velasco was born in the US and raised in Venezuela His first feature La Hora Cero The Zero Hour broke all Venezuelan Box Office records and garnered 35 festival awards The Lincoln Centers Film Comment Magazine called it rare and special an intelligent finely constructed and wonderfully acted feature with a subversive message and a sting in the tail Velascos next feature The Whistler is a thriller based on the Venezuelan legend of the same name and was written by his wife and frequent collaborator Carolina Paiz Orange Is the New Black Narcos and is produced by Dillon D Jordan The Kindergarten Teacher Skin with PaperChase films On the TV front Velasco directed the immigration episode for the final season of the EmmyAwardwinning Orange is the New Black an episode which The New Yorker singled out as brilliant He also directed for Jenji Kohans new Netflix comedy Teenage Bounty Hunters premiering this August and is currently the producerdirector for Social Distance Netflixs first scripted anthology written and produced remotely during the COVID19 pandemic