Ramona Diaz Explained

Ramona S. Diaz
Nationality:Filipino-American
Education:Emerson College (B.A.)
Alma Mater:Stanford University (M.A.)
Occupation:Filmmaker
Notable Works:Imelda
Style:Documentary

Ramona S. Diaz is a Filipino-American documentary filmmaker[1] best known for creating "character-driven documentaries".[2] [3] [4] [5] Her notable works include the 2012 film , featuring the band Journey and its new lead vocalist Arnel Pineda, which won the Audience Award for the 2013–2014 season of PBS's Independent Lens;[6] and the 2003 film Imelda, about the life of Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines.[7] [8] [9]

Three of Diaz's films have screened at The Sundance Film Festival: Imelda, a biographical documentary about Imelda's beginnings as a beauty contest winner to the wife of rising politician and eventual President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos. Motherland, a documentary set at an overcrowded and under-resourced maternity hospital in Manila;[10] and most recently A Thousand Cuts a profile of Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, a journalist working in the Philippines, released in 2020.[11] Motherland received a Special Jury Award at Sundance in 2017 and premiered the same year at the Berlin International Film Festival.[12] Diaz served as a Documentary Competition Juror at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

Diaz's most recent feature documentary, And So It Begins, was selected to premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2019 Diaz received a United States Artists (USA) Fellowship.[13]

Filmography

Awards

!Year!Award!Festival!Film
2013Audience AwardPalm Springs International Film FestivalDon't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey
2017Viktor AwardMunich International Documentary Festival (DOK.fest)Motherland
2017Editing AwardSundance Film FestivalMotherland
2020DocEdge AwardDocumentary Edge FestivalA Thousand Cuts
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Notes and References

  1. September 19, 2017. Susan Kouguell Talks with Motherland Documentary Filmmaker Ramona Diaz. Script Magazine . en-US.
  2. Web site: 'Motherland': Ramona Diaz on the Many 'Leaps of Faith' That Got Her Film Into Sundance and Theaters . September 9, 2017. No Film School. en. December 3, 2018.
  3. Web site: Ramona S. Diaz . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . en-US. December 3, 2018.
  4. Web site: A Conversation with Ramona Diaz (MOTHERLAND) . Hammer to Nail . May 24, 2017 . en-US. December 3, 2018.
  5. Web site: Ramona S. Diaz . americanfilmshowcase.com . University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts . Los Angeles, CA . en-US. December 3, 2018.
  6. Web site: Phillips . Craig . The Winner of 2013-2014 Independent Lens Audience Award Is... . Independent Lens . PBS . June 30, 2014.
  7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51840-2004Jul15.html 'Imelda': Don't Cry for Her
  8. http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/movies/09MARC.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1389171396-/7gkQ6VPu8tcFczLldDQ5g For a Regal Pariah, Despite It All, the Shoe Is Never on the Other Foot
  9. Book: Keen, Adam. Film Review 2004–2005: The Definitive Film Yearbook. October 1, 2004. Reynolds & Hearn. 9781903111871.
  10. Web site: Motherland. www.sundance.org. English. February 13, 2020.
  11. Web site: A Thousand Cuts. www.sundance.org. English. February 13, 2020.
  12. Web site: Motherland ITVS. itvs.org. en. February 13, 2020.
  13. Web site: United States Artists » Ramona S. Diaz . March 2, 2023 . en-US.
  14. Web site: Ramona S. Diaz. July 23, 2020. IMDb.

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