BIOGRAPHY
Photo by Katerina Stratos
DIANA WARD
Diana Ward is a Los Angeles-based Australian producer. Feature documentary ROLLER DREAMS premiered at the 2017 Sydney Film Festival, winning the Foxtel Audience Award for Best Documentary and the Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2018 Calgary Underground Film Festival. Having played at festivals around the globe, ROLLER DREAMS is now available to audiences everywhere.
An experienced short form producer, Diana has produced a number of award-winning short films; including sci-fi ANAMNESIS (Amazon Prime) for director Sebastien Tobler, Danielle McCarthy's OLD WAR (SBS Australia), Rachael Turk's part-animated love haiku JAILBIRDS (Shorts TV) and Cath Moore's SHELLING PEAS.
In 2018 Diana completed production on short film FULL BEAT with writer/director Kase Pena for NALIP's Latino Lens Incubator, as well as LIBERTY (winner Special Prize of the Generation 14-plus International Jury, Berlinale 2019 and SXSW Best Narrative Short) for writer/director Faren Humes and stop motion animation THE COIN (SXSW) with Siqi Song for Film Independent's Project Involve. Diana is honored to be a Film Independent Fellow and recipient of the 2018 Amazon Studios Visionary Filmmaker Fellowship.
FILMOGRAPHY
Directed by Philip Harder
Featuring Baron von Raschke and Maddog Vachon
THE CLAW is a documentary about legendary wrestler and all around supervillain Baron von Raschke.
THE CLAW
2019
Directed by Philip Harder
Featuring Baron von Raschke and Maddog Vachon
THE CLAW is a documentary about legendary wrestler and all around supervillain Baron von Raschke.
THE COIN
2019
Directed by Siqi Song
Starring Anna Pan
THE COIN is a stop motion animation that follows a Chinese girl who searches for the lucky coin in the food she eats.
LIBERTY
2019
Directed by Faren Humes
Starring Milagros Gilbert and Alexandra Jackson
Alex and Milagros deal with great life upheaval as they prepare to dance at their community’s redevelopment groundbreaking ceremony.
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
2018
Directed by Nawaf Al Janahi
A short experimental documentary portrait of the Barclay Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
FULL BEAT
2018
Directed by Kase Pena
Starring Juliana Joel, Francisco Soto Jr. and Luciana Faulharber
A transgender youth, resentful of having to spend court-ordered time
with her father, finds an unlikely ally
in his fiancé.
ROLLER DREAMS
2017
Directed by Kate Hickey
Featuring Mad, Terrell Ferguson, Sara Messenger, Larry Pitts, Jimmy Rich and Duval Stowers
It's 1984 and Venice Beach, CA, is at the epicenter of a pop culture explosion – roller dancing!
ANAMNESIS
2016
Directed by Sebastien Tobler
Starring Fernanda Romero, Rane Jameson and Illeana Douglas
Celine gives life to her lost love and attempts to resurrect the past using her memories. ANAMNESIS is a futuristic treatise on love and consciousness in seeing how far true love will take you.
SHELLING PEAS
2011
Directed by Cath Moore
Starring Brenna Harding and
Charlie Garber
Amy and Dean deal with the death of their mother differently, but before they get on with their lives, they first have to get on with each other.
JAILBIRDS
2011
Directed by Rachael Turk
Starring Yael Stone and Eamon Farren
All is not what it seems when Lucy and Dane conspire a breakout from their mythical island cells. A mix of 16mm film, digital and 2D animation, JAILBIRDS is a figurative tale about hope, imagination and togetherness.
OLD WAR
2009
Directed by Danielle McCarthy
Starring Teresa Jakovich and
Costa Ronin
What do you do when you begin to fall for someone you're meant to hate?
SXSW
FILM FESTIVAL 2019
JURY AWARD
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
"LIBERTY"
CHAMPS ELYSEES FILM FESTIVAL 2019
BEST AMERICAN
SHORT FILM
"LIBERTY"
WINTERTHUR
KURZFILMTAGE
2019
SPECIAL MENTION
"LIBERTY"
CALGARY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2018
JURY AWARD
BEST DOCUMENTARY
"ROLLER DREAMS"
DOWNUNDER BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2011
BEST SHORT FILM
"OLD WAR"
BERLINALE 2019
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
GENERATION 14 PLUS
"LIBERTY"
CHICAGO INTL FILM FESTIVAL 2019
GOLD HUGO
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
"LIBERTY"
INDIE STREETS FILM FESTIVAL 2019
JURY AWARD
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
"LIBERTY"
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2017
FOXTEL AUDIENCE AWARD
BEST DOCUMENTARY
"ROLLER DREAMS"
INSIDE FILM AWARDS
2009
BEST MUSIC VIDEO NOMINEE
JOHN STEEL SINGERS "OVERPASS"
MIAMI
FILM FESTIVAL 2019
KNIGHT MADE IN MIAMI AWARD
BEST SHORT FILM
"LIBERTY"
AFI
FILM FESTIVAL
2019
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
"LIBERTY"
NEW HAMPSHIRE FILM FESTIVAL 2019
JURY AWARD
BEST SHORT ANIMATION
"THE COIN"
INT'L INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS 2016
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
"ANAMNESIS"
WAMi AWARDS
2008