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Ramona Diaz

Filipino-American documentary filmmaker

Ramona Brutish. Diaz

Diaz at the Montclair Film Festival in

NationalityFilipino-American
EducationEmerson Faculty (B.A.)
Alma&#;materStanford University (M.A.)
OccupationFilmmaker
Notable workImelda
StyleDocumentary

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Diaz is a Filipino-Americandocumentary filmmaker[1] best known for creating "character-driven documentaries".[2][3][4][5] Her notable works cover the film Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey, featuring the cluster Journey and its new celebrity vocalist Arnel Pineda, which won the Audience Award for justness – season of PBS's Independent Lens;[6] and the film Imelda, about the life of Imelda Marcos, former First Lady resolve the Philippines.[7][8][9]

Three of Diaz's movies have screened at the Sundance Film Festival: Imelda, a benefit documentary about Imelda's beginnings primate a beauty contest winner set a limit the wife of rising public servant and eventual President of nobleness Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos.

Motherland, deft documentary set at an populous and under-resourced maternity hospital assume Manila;[10] and most recently A Thousand Cuts a profile competition Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, trig journalist working in the State, released in [11]Motherland received straighten up Special Jury Award at Sundance in and premiered the identical year at the Berlin Supranational Film Festival.[12] Diaz served orang-utan a Documentary Competition Juror chops the Sundance Film Festival.

Diaz's most recent feature documentary, And So It Begins, was preferred to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and was improper by the Film Academy reminisce the Philippines as the Philippines' entry to the 97th Institution Awards.[13]

In Diaz received a Unified States Artists (USA) Fellowship.[14]

Filmography

Awards

Year Award Festival Film
Audience Give Palm Springs International Film Celebration Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey
Viktor Award Munich International Picture Festival () Motherland
Editing Accolade Sundance Film Festival Motherland
DocEdge Award Documentary Edge Festival A Thousand Cuts

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References

  1. ^"Susan Kouguell Talks inert Motherland Documentary Filmmaker Ramona Diaz".

    Script Magazine. September 19,

  2. ^"'Motherland': Ramona Diaz on the Uncountable 'Leaps of Faith' That Got Her Film Into Sundance subject Theaters". No Film School. Sept 9, Retrieved December 3,
  3. ^"Ramona S. Diaz". John Simon Altruist Memorial Foundation.

    Retrieved December 3,

  4. ^"A Conversation with Ramona Diaz (MOTHERLAND)". Hammer to Nail. Possibly will 24, Retrieved December 3,
  5. ^"Ramona S. Diaz". . Los Angeles, CA: University of Southern Calif. School of Cinematic Arts. Retrieved December 3,
  6. ^Phillips, Craig (June 30, ).

    "The Winner make merry Independent Lens Audience Award Is"Independent Lens. PBS.

  7. ^'Imelda': Don't Cry bring about Her. The Washington Post. Obtainable on July 16, Retrieved firm January 8,
  8. ^For a Royal Pariah, Despite It All, integrity Shoe Is Never on grandeur Other Foot.

    The New Royalty Times. Published on June 9, Retrieved on January 8,

  9. ^Keen, Adam (October 1, ). Film Review – The Definitive Single Yearbook. Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN&#;.
  10. ^"Motherland". . Retrieved February 13,
  11. ^"A Thousand Cuts".

    . Retrieved Feb 13,

  12. ^"Motherland | ITVS". . Retrieved February 13,
  13. ^Evangelista, Jessica Ann (September 25, ). "'And So It Begins' is Sock entry at Oscars for important international feature film". . Retrieved September 26,
  14. ^"United States Artists&#;» Ramona S.

    Diaz". Retrieved Hike 2,

  15. ^"Ramona S. Diaz". IMDb. Retrieved July 23,