Diana Diroy
Diana Diroy is a documentary filmmaker, editor and cinematographer driven by a love for storytelling both behind the lens and in the edit room.
A Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow (2022), Diroy is the editor of the feature documentary, Standing Above the Clouds (2024), which world-premiered at Hot Docs and won the Bill Nemtin Social Impact Award. She also edited Fire Through Dry Grass, which broadcasted on PBS and is a New York Time’s Critic’s Pick. In 2021, Diroy was selected for the Sundance Art of Editing Fellowship and in 2018 was a selected fellow for the Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Program.
In addition to editing, Diroy is the co-director and DP of We Are They, an experimental dance documentary highlighting the work of Filipino health care workers living in Queens, New York during the height of the pandemic. The short film is featured at MoMA PS1 through October 2024. Her cinematography work in the documentary shorts Keep Saray Home (2020) and Libre (2019) has screened at Hot Docs, the Sundance Film Festival, and CAAMFest. Her work reflects her interests in women-centered stories, social justice, indigenous rights, climate change, immigration, and identity. Diroy also previously worked at CNN Digital, editing quick-turn news videos, and producing and filming character-driven pieces for CNN Travel.
She holds an MA in Media Studies from The New School and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from San Jose State University.
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