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Ramona S. Diaz (b. 1962)

Alias:
Ramona Diaz

Birthplace:
Phillipines

Born:
August 31, 1962

Biography from TheMovieDB

Ramona Diaz is an award-winning Filipino-American documentary filmmaker whose films have screened at Sundance, the Berlinale, Tribeca, the Viennale, IDFA, and many other top-tier film festivals. All of Ramona's feature-length films—Imelda (2004), The Learning (2011), Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey (2012), Motherland (2017) and her latest film A Thousand Cuts (2020) - which chronicles the crackdown on the Philippine press and the work of journalist Maria Ressa, now a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Motherland won an award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and had its international premiere at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. It was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best Documentary, a Peabody Award, and a Gaward Urian Award from the Filipino Film Critics.  She has received funding from ITVS, Sundance, CAAM, Tribeca, Catapult Film Fund, Chicken & Egg, MacArthur Foundation, the IDA, Cinereach and Creative Capital, among others. Ramona served as a film envoy for the American Film Showcase, a joint program of the U.S. Dept. of State and the USC School of Cinematic Arts that brings American films to audiences worldwide. She has conducted master classes and production workshops all over the world. Ramona was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship and was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) in 2016, and in 2017 received a Women at Sundance Fellowship and a Chicken & Egg Pictures Breakthrough Filmmaker Award. She is a current recipient of a U.S. Artist Fellowship. Ramona is a graduate of Emerson College and holds an MA from Stanford University.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Associate Producer:
1997  Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

Director:
1997  Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
2003  Imelda
2011  The Learning
2013  Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
2017  Motherland
2020  A Thousand Cuts
2024  And So It Begins

Executive Producer:
1997  Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
2003  Imelda
2011  Give Up Tomorrow
2011  The Learning
2013  Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
2017  Motherland
2020  A Thousand Cuts
2024  And So It Begins

Producer:
1997  Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
2003  Imelda
2011  Give Up Tomorrow
2011  The Learning
2013  Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
2017  Motherland
2020  A Thousand Cuts
2024  And So It Begins

Writer:
1997  Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
2003  Imelda
2011  Give Up Tomorrow
2011  The Learning
2013  Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
2017  Motherland
2020  A Thousand Cuts
2024  And So It Begins

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TV Production

Director:
1983  Frontline

Writer:
1983  Frontline

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