Diego Guijarro

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Diego Guijarro
OccupationCinematographer
Website https://www.diegoguijarro.com/

Diego Guijarro Alvarez, known professionally as Diego Guijarro, is a Spanish-Canadian cinematographer. He is most noted for his work on the 2021 film Carmen , for which he won the Borsos Competition award for Best Cinematography in a Canadian film at the 2021 Whistler Film Festival. [1]

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Early life and education

A native of Madrid, Guijarro moved to Canada at age 19 to study English. [2] Deciding to stay in Canada, he studied cinematography at Sheridan College, [2] and won the Canadian Society of Cinematographers award for Best Student Cinematography in 2016 for his fourth-year student film House of Glory. [3]

Career

Guijarro's credits include the films Islands [4] and Cascade , and music videos for Lydia Ainsworth, Nikki Yanofsky and Begonia.

Awards

In 2021, Guijarro won Best Cinematography at the Whistler Film Festival.

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