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Nat Geo Adventure
Diego Buñuel is a French foreign news correspondent and the grandson of the renowned Spanish film director Luis Buñuel. He has received several prestigious journalism awards, including a 2003 Scoop award – one of France’s top journalism prizes – for Desert Kings, an hour-long report on the U.S. intervention in Iraq. He received another Scoop award in 2004 for Iraq: At Hell’s Gates, a 90-minute report on the spiralling problems in the country. In 2001, Buñuel joined the Capa Television Agency where he produced and reported for French television. His assignments focused on international affairs from Afghanistan, Congo, Iraq, Indonesia, Israel, China and North Korea among others. Prior to joining Capa, the French military drafted Buñuel to serve in Sarajevo where he worked for NATO’s weekly armed forces newspaper and travelled all over the war-torn Balkans. His 10-month experience in the service inspired him to become a war correspondent. Since 2006 he has been the presenter and director of the documentary series Don’t Tell My Mother, co-produced by Canal Plus and the National Geographic Channel, in which he offers a new look on rarely travelled areas affected by conflicts and wars such as Afghanistan, Colombia, North Korea, Congo, Venezuela, Israel, Iran, Iraq, The Balkans (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo) and Pakistan. His latest show on Canal Plus is Les Nouveaux Explorateurs. The new season of Don’t tell my mother, that will be aired by Nat Geo Adventure in June 2010, will scour the earth in search of the most action-packed cities, where life is always lived in the fast lane and where urban survival skills are a must. The world begins to leave its traditional rural past behind and it’s the first time in history that more people are living in cities than anywhere else. So there’s no better time for Buñuel to find out what exactly is going on in these cities.
