Diane Paragas

Diane Paragas is a Filipino-American documentary and narrative film and commercial director. Her 2011 documentary film Brooklyn Boheme[1] was about the African Arts movement that launched the careers of Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Branford Marsalis, and Rosie Perez, among others. It was the opening night film for the 2011 Urbanworld Film Festival[2] and premiered on Showtime. The film won the Black Reel Outstanding TV Documentary Award.[3] Paragas co-directed the film with Nelson George as well as serving as a producer, editor and cinematographer.

Diane Paragas
Paragas in Brooklyn 2019
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2005-present
Children1

In 2019, Paragas wrote and directed her debut narrative feature Yellow Rose,[4] which stars Eva Noblezada and Lea Salonga.[5] The film was selected as the Opening Night Film of the 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.[6][7] The film won the NYWIFT Ravenal Grant[8][9] and won the inaugural ABS-CBN Cinematografo Grant.[10] Yellow Rose won Grand Jury Prizes at LAAPF,[11] Bentonville Film Festival,[12] CAAMFEST37,[13] Urbanworld [14] where it also took the Audience Award. The film also won the Audience Award at Hawaii International Film Festival.[15] The film was picked up for worldwide distribution by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and will be released theatrically in Spring 2020.[16]

Paragas is currently developing a feature documentary The Three Lives of David Wong which was selected for Sundance Creative Producing Lab[17] and won the CAAM Documentary for Social Change grant.[18]

References
  1. Patterson, Troy (2012-02-02). "Showtime's Brooklyn Boheme and MTV's I Just Want My Pants Back explore Brooklyn". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  2. Mumin, Nijla (2011-09-13). "8 Films to see at Urbanworld Film Festival". IndieWire. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  3. "Critics Wild About "Beasts!"". The Black Reel Awards. 2013-02-08. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  4. "Immigration drama 'Yellow Rose' wants to diversify Asian-American stories in Hollywood". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  5. McNary, Dave (2018-09-10). "Eva Noblezada, Lea Salonga to Star in Musical Drama 'Yellow Rose'". Variety. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  6. Ramos, Dino-Ray (2019-03-18). "Lea Salonga & Eva Noblezada Immigration Drama 'Yellow Rose' Set As LA Asian Pacific Film Festival Opening Night Film". Deadline. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  7. Gray, Tim (2019-04-02). "Asian Pacific Film Festival Spotlights Women Filmmakers". Variety. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  8. "NYWIFT Announces Ravenal Feature Film Grant Awardees Lydia Dean Pilcher and Suzanne Guacci". SHOOTonline. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  9. "NYWIFT Awards Ravenal Foundation Grant to YELLOW ROSE - Feature Film About Undocumented Country Singer". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  10. "Cinematografo winner "Yellow Rose" to headline SF Asian film fest". INQUIRER.net USA. 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  11. Gray, Tim (2019-05-11). "'Yellow Rose' Takes Grand Jury Prize at Asian Pacific Film Fest". Variety. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  12. Bartlett, Carese (2019-05-13). "BFF 2019 Announces Festival Winners". Bentonville Film Festival. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  13. "Fil-Am coming-of-age immigration drama "Yellow Rose" awarded Grand Jury Prize at three film festivals in a row". Asian Journal News. 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  14. https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Photo-Flash-YELLOW-ROSE-Starring-Eva-Noblezada-Wins-Big-at-23rd-Annual-Urbanworld-Film-Festival-20190922. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. https://hiff.org/festival-events/hiff-blog?post=316. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. https://deadline.com/2019/10/sony-pictures-worldwide-acquisitions-picks-up-diane-paragas-muscical-drama-yellow-rose-1202767736/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. Kay, Jeremy (July 28, 2017). "Sundance Institute unveils Creative Producing Program fellows". Screen. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  18. "CAAM is Supporting 14 New Documentary Films and A New Podcast in 2019". CAAM Home. 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
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