
Diana Diroy is a documentary editor and cinematographer. She is a Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow (2022) and edited the feature documentary, Standing Above the Clouds. In 2019, she edited the short version of Standing Above the Clouds, which won Best Documentary Short at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Diroy edited, Fire Through Dry Grass, a feature documentary 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. The film won Jury Award for Best Documentary at the Blackstar Film Festival. She is also a 2021-22 Sundance Art of Editing Fellow and was selected for the Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Program in 2018. Her cinematography work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Hot Docs and CAAMFest. Her work reflects her interests in social justice, climate change, immigration, gender and identity. Diroy is currently based in San Francisco, and continuously strives to collaborate and make magic with other creatives locally and remotely.