Ramona S. Diaz

Ramona Diaz is an awardwinning FilipinoAmerican documentary filmmaker whose films have screened at Sundance the Berlinale Tribeca the Viennale IDFA and many other toptier film festivals All of Ramonas featurelength filmsImelda 2004 The Learning 2011 Dont Stop Believin Everymans 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 US 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 US Artist Fellowship Ramona is a graduate of Emerson College and holds an MA from Stanford University