Midnight Ballads: Key Creative Bios: Diego Briceño-Orduz, director and writer Born in Colombia, Diego moved to Montreal, Canada, to study a Major in Film Production. For six years he worked as a freelance documentary and fiction film editor on many award-wining productions. Later he founded Périphéria productions with colleague Yanick Létourneau and started to work on his own projects. He first directed and produced A Saddletree, a film that won Best Documentary at the Arrowhead International Film Festival (California). He then wrote and directed Things Never Said in Playa Perdida, a short 25-minute fiction film that won Best Short Film at Festivalissimo, the Montréal Latino Film Festival. In 2005 he completed his first feature length as a director, Souvenirs Kids, a hard-hitting story about a case of sexually exploited street kids in Acapulco, Mexico. Diego is now completing his latest documentary, Midnight Ballads, an intimate portrait of nighttime janitors in Montreal.