Meet the Team

Diego Armando Aparicio (he/him) | Festival Director

Diego Aparicio is the founder and artistic director of Queer Wave: the Cyprus LGBTQIA+ film festival. For his work on Queer Wave, Diego was one of 20 finalists worldwide shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Youth Awards, amongst 1,000 nominees from 43 countries. He served as an official jury member for Giornate degli Autori at the Venice International Film Festival in 2018, and has assisted the Giornate as pre-selector since 2019. He was also part of the selection panel for the 2022 LUX Audience Award, presented jointly by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy. Diego’s credits in the production department include work on four international co-productions, two of which premiered at the Cannes Critics’ Week and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. He has also worked in the direction department for French limited series Tikkoun, distributed by Canal+. He graduated with a physics degree from Imperial College London in 2016.