Mario Diaz(XV)

Mario Diaz was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is an Emmy-award winning director, editor, and producer known for his ESPN's 30 For 30 documentaries Brothers in Exile (2014), Trojan War (2015), as well as BET's Death Row Chronicles (2018), A&E's award-winning true crime series Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole (2019) and the two-part documentary series Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution (2022), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022. He recently wrote and edited the CNN Films / Max hit Chowchilla (2023) and just wrapped production on The Chicano Squad, a four-hour limited series for A&E. Mario won an Emmy for directing Brothers in Exile (2014) and was nominated for producing/editing Us Against the World (2017).