Raquel Cepeda is an award-winning editor, multi-media journalist, and filmmaker.

Cepeda wrote/director Bling: A Planet Rock, an 87 minute documentary about American hip-hop cultures obsession with diamondsblingingand all its social trappings, and how this infatuation correlated with the ten-year conflict in Sierra Leone, West Africa. She co-produced the documentary with a19, VH1, and the United Nations Development Programme. A modified version for television of Bling premiered under the title Blingd: Blood, Diamonds and Hip-Hop on VH1 on February 22, 2007 (3.3 million viewers).

Distributed by Image, Bling… is available at Walmart, FYE, Circuit City, and Amazon.

Currently, Cepeda is in production on BLOW US UP!, a wartime concert documentary starring platinum selling rapper Paul Wall and TV Johnny who will journey into the past to see the futurein Iraq and Johnnys homeland, Vietnam.

Following in the tradition of the highly acclaimed Bling: A Planet Rock, BLOW US UP! uses the medium of hip-hop to engage a new audience in the history of two American wars, a generation and musical genre apart from each other.