Diego Buñuel (born 21 July 1975 in Paris) is a French-American filmmaker and the host and director of the National Geographic Channel series Don't Tell My Mother.

Diego received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University, majoring in journalism, minoring in political science and then interned for various newspapers such as The Times Picayune in New Orleans, The San Francisco Examiner, the Saint Louis Post Dispatch, the Miami Herald and the Chicago Tribune before going to work for the Sun Sentinel as lead crime reporter.

After that, he went on to follow the Second Congo War, the 2004 tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Yasser Arafat's funeral in Ramallah and did a special report on the rise of evangelical Christians in George Bush's America, among some 50 other news stories.

[1] In 2006, he shot the first episode of the series Don't Tell My Mother, co-produced by Canal+ and the National Geographic Channel, where he offers a new look on rarely traveled areas affected by conflicts and wars such as Afghanistan, Colombia, North Korea, Congo, Venezuela, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, The Balkans (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo) and Pakistan.

In 2013, he traveled Allahabad to shoot a documentary titled Inside the Maha Kumbh will feature Buñuel's experience of living with the Naga sadhus and learning about the intricacies of the rituals held there.

Under that label, docs such as Releve, Terror Studios, Exodus, Teddy Riner, Guerriers de l'Ombre, Scam(s) and many others were selected in Cannes, SXSW, Tribeca and for the International Emmy Awards.