Description: Lead by Diego Velasco & Carolina Paiz, Open Studios is a development company committed to powerful storytelling that gives voice to the Latiné experience, exploring both our current condition and our past history with authenticity, nuance, and humor.
Born from the creative collaboration between husband and wife team Diego Velasco & Carolina Paiz, Open Studios is a development company committed to powerful storytelling that gives voice to the Latiné experience, exploring both our current condition and our past history with authenticity, nuance, and humor. Our goal is to bring Latiné-led stories to a global audience by creating compelling, mainstream productions that move, inspire and challenge the status quo. We aim to make a positive impact in the lives
Carolina was raised in Guatemala City at the height of the civil war, but was lucky enough to experience said war in a bubble, spending her time indoors, reading and watching cable TV, perfecting an American accent while toggling between Melrose Place and CNN. Later, at Tulane University, she became captivated by Latin American history and literature, cultivating a lifelong passion for exploring the current and past events that have defined our Latiné experience — but which have been erased from the history
Diego was born in Buffalo, NY and lived there until his parents divorce caused the family to move back to his mother’s native Venezuela when he was 12. After recovering from culture clash, he spent his days recreating American gangster films with his friends. While that didn’t do much for his grades, it did serve him well in film school, where he quickly discovered his passion for directing. Currently, Velasco is pursuing said passion as the Producing Director and Co-EP for the second season of Twenties, cr