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] which stars Eva Noblezada, Dale Watson, Princess Punzalan and Lea Salonga.[2] The film was selected as the Opening Night Film of the 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.[3][4] The film won the NYWIFT Ravenal Grant[5][6] and won the inaugural ABS-CBN Cinematografo Grant.[7] Yellow Rose won Grand Jury Prizes at LAAPF,[8] Bentonville Film Festival,[9] CAAMFEST37,[10] Urbanworld [11] where it also took the Audience Award. The film also won the Audience Award at Hawaii International Film Festival.[12] The film was picked up for worldwide distribution by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions[13] and was released theatrically in October 2020 [14] in select theatres due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[13]

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

Her 2011 documentary film Brooklyn Boheme[15] 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[16] and premiered on Showtime. The film won the Black Reel Outstanding TV Documentary Award.[17] 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[18] and won the CAAM Documentary for Social Change grant.[19]

Ms Paragas was selected as a 2020 Creative Capital Awardee.[20]

References
  1. "Immigration drama 'Yellow Rose' wants to diversify Asian-American stories in Hollywood". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  2. McNary, Dave (2018-09-10). "Eva Noblezada, Lea Salonga to Star in Musical Drama 'Yellow Rose'". Variety. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  3. 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.
  4. Gray, Tim (2019-04-02). "Asian Pacific Film Festival Spotlights Women Filmmakers". Variety. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  5. "NYWIFT Announces Ravenal Feature Film Grant Awardees Lydia Dean Pilcher and Suzanne Guacci". SHOOTonline. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  6. "NYWIFT Awards Ravenal Foundation Grant to YELLOW ROSE - Feature Film About Undocumented Country Singer". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  7. "Cinematografo winner "Yellow Rose" to headline SF Asian film fest". INQUIRER.net USA. 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  8. Gray, Tim (2019-05-11). "'Yellow Rose' Takes Grand Jury Prize at Asian Pacific Film Fest". Variety. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  9. Bartlett, Carese (2019-05-13). "BFF 2019 Announces Festival Winners". Bentonville Film Festival. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  10. "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.
  11. "Photo Flash: YELLOW ROSE Starring Eva Noblezada Wins Big at 23rd Annual Urbanworld Film Festival". BroadwayWorld.com.
  12. https://hiff.org/festival-events/hiff-blog?post=316. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. Ramos, Dino-Ray (October 24, 2019). "Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Picks Up Diane Paragas Musical Drama 'Yellow Rose'".
  14. "'The Last Shift,' 'Yellow Rose' Get Release Dates | Hollywood Reporter". www.hollywoodreporter.com.
  15. 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.
  16. Mumin, Nijla (2011-09-13). "8 Films to see at Urbanworld Film Festival". IndieWire. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  17. "Critics Wild About "Beasts!"". The Black Reel Awards. 2013-02-08. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  18. Kay, Jeremy (July 28, 2017). "Sundance Institute unveils Creative Producing Program fellows". Screen. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  19. "CAAM is Supporting 14 New Documentary Films and A New Podcast in 2019". CAAM Home. 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  20. "2020 Creative Capital Award Recipients Announced". www.artforum.com.
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