Diane Paragas

Diane Paragas is a Filipino-American documentary and narrative film and commercial director. She is best known for writing, directing and producing the 2020 film Yellow Rose. Yellow Rose was Paragas' debut narrative feature[1] The film was selected as the Opening Night Film of the 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.[2][3] Yellow Rose won Grand Jury Prizes at LAAPFF,[4][5] Bentonville Film Festival,[6] CAAMFEST37,[7] and Urbanworld[8] where it also took the Audience Award. The film also won the Audience Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival.[9][10][11]

Diane Paragas
Paragas in Brooklyn 2019
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	2005-present
Children	1

Her 2011 documentary film Brooklyn Boheme[12] was about the African Arts movement[13] that documented the careers of Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Branford Marsalis, and Rosie Perez, and more.[14][15] It was the opening night film for the 2011 Urbanworld Film Festival[16] and premiered on Showtime. The film won the Black Reel Outstanding TV Documentary Award.[17][18][19] Paragas co-directed the film with Nelson George as well as serving as a producer, editor and cinematographer.

Paragas is currently developing a feature documentary The Three Lives of David Wong, which was selected for Sundance Creative Producing Lab[20] and won the CAAM Documentary for Social Change grant.[21]

Paragas was selected as a 2020 Creative Capital Awardee.[22] In March 2021, the Philippine Consulate General honored Diane Paragas with a Distinguished Filipino Women in New York award.[23] In 2022 she was named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow.[24]