Trivia

Member of the International Jury at the 37th Mostra Internacional de São Paulo in 2013.

Recipient of the Prince Claus Award in 2014.

Member of the Official Competition jury at the 9th Vladivostok Pacific Meridian International Film Festival in 2011.

Diaz is one of the most productive directors of the 'slow' or durational cinema. His feature films, mostly running between 3 to 12 hours, could only be made with the new freedoms afforded by inexpensive digital technologies. Diaz mostly used consumer-level HD and DSLR cameras to shoot his movies, often serving as his own cinematographer and editor.

Altogether, all of his feature films added up clock in at 7,162 minutes (or 119 hours and 36 minutes). This is roughly 5 whole days worth of footage.