Finding a voice.
Making room for others.

Kane Diep is a filmmaker, social strategist and speaker who helped grow Prime Video’s TikTok from launch to 23.5 million followers. He led the team and strategy behind its Webby-winning Plot Pitches series, and his work spans 200+ BuzzFeed videos, Team USA Winter Olympics and the feature-length documentary Uploaded: The Asian American Movement.

Across that work, Kane returns to a personal question: what makes people feel seen? Raised in San Diego by Chinese-Vietnamese refugee parents, he brings the perspective of a gay Asian American storyteller to the stories he tells and the creative teams he leads.

Finding a voice through film

His feature-length documentary, Uploaded: The Asian American Movement, explored a generation of Asian American artists finding audiences online. Kane directed and co-produced the film, drawing on 60 interviews, and brought it to university screenings and conversations about representation, including Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. The film received a Grand Jury Award nomination at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

Personal stories. Global audiences.

At BuzzFeed, Kane directed and produced more than 200 videos across four years. His work made room for difficult conversations about family, identity and self-image, often by putting himself in the conversation. In I Asked My Mom 11 Intimate Questions Before It’s Too Late, curiosity became an invitation to talk across generations. In I Hired a Speech Therapist to Fix My Boring Voice, a seemingly practical experiment opened into a more personal exploration of expression and identity, culminating in a talk before 500 students at Boston University.

He brought that sensitivity to audience behavior into his leadership at Prime Video. As Executive Producer and TikTok Lead on Plot Pitches, he helped turn the emotional dynamics of films and series into a new storytelling format. The series earned a 2023 Webby for Best Social Video Series and a Streamy nomination for Branded Series that year. He later led Team USA’s YouTube channel strategy through Shareability for the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

The questions behind the work

The scale has changed, but the questions remain personal. Who gets to be visible? What helps someone speak honestly? How can a specific story create understanding between people with different lives? These are the questions Kane brings to his filmmaking, creative leadership and conversations with audiences.

Based in Los Angeles, Kane is available for consulting, team sessions, university talks, panels, podcasts and editorial interviews. He speaks about storytelling, representation, creative experimentation and finding a voice, drawing on both the work audiences see and the process of learning to show up within it.

For an outside perspective on Kane’s work, read About Amazon’s profile of Kane Diep and the growth of Prime Video’s TikTok, or explore the feature and related work.