Diana Diroy is a documentary editor and cinematographer. She has a love for storytelling both behind the lens and in the edit room. Diroy, a Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow (2022), is currently editing the feature documentary, Standing Above the Clouds. In 2019, she edited the short version of the film, which won Best Documentary Short at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. She also recently edited the award-winning feature documentary, Fire Through Dry Grass, a film about a group of Black and brown disabled artists living on a small island in NYC, fighting COVID and the city to protect the lives of 500 vulnerable nursing home residents. Diroy was selected for 2021-22 Sundance Art of Editing Fellowship and the Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Program in 2018. Her cinematography work has screened at Hot Docs, Sundance Film Festival, and CAAMFest. Her work reflects her interests in social justice, climate change, immigration, gender and identity. Diroy is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and continuously strives to collaborate, build community, and make magic with other creatives locally and remotely.
She’s also a proud member of Brown Girl Doc Mafia, Authority Collective, A-Doc, BIPOC Doc Edtiors and Women Photograph.
