Diane Weyermann

In 2011 Weyermann shared the 2011 News & Documentary Emmy Award for an episode of the PBS documentary series P.O.V..[1] In 2017 she shared two awards An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the Audience Award at the Biografilm Festival, and the Greenpeace - Lurra Award, at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.[2]

Diane Weyermann
Occupationfilm producer

Diane Weyermann is an American filmmaker.[1]

Weyermann directed a documentary about Eddy Balchowsky, an American veteran of the Spanish Civil War.

She was the director of the Open Society Institute New York’s Arts and Culture Program.[3] She directed the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program, until 2005, when she joined the management of Participant Media.

In 2008 Standard Operating Procedure, a documentary directed by Errol Morris, about the Abu Ghraib scandal, was criticized when the press learned some of the individuals covered by the film has received monetary compensation.[4] The New York Times quoted Weyermann defending the practice, saying that, while it wasn't commonly talked about, it was a common practice of documentary filmmakers who wanted to make sure they weren't exploiting their subjects.

Weyermann was co-chair, for 2019 and 2020, with Larry Karaszewski, of the Motion Picture Academy's international feature film executive committee, and so played a role in helping the Academy evolve how Oscars were awarded to films from outside North America.[5]

References
  1. Diane Weyemann's Awards at IMDb
  2. Nick Vivarelli (2019-02-08). "Participant Media, Diane Weyermann to be Honored by Italy's Biografilm Festival (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-11. Italy’s Biografilm Festival, the unique event billed as a cinematic celebration of human lives, will pay special tribute to Participant Media this year and in particular to Diane Weyermann, head of the company’s documentary film and television unit.
  3. "Diane Weyermann (USA) President of Documentary Film & Television Participant Media". Australian International Documentary Conference. Retrieved 2020-02-11. Prior to joining Participant in 2005, Weyermann was the director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program. During her tenure at Sundance, she was responsible for the Sundance Documentary Fund, a program supporting documentary films dealing with contemporary human rights, social justice, civil liberties, and freedom of expression from around the world. She also developed and ran the Documentary Edit Lab and the Documentary Film and Composer Lab. Before her tenure at Sundance, Weyermann was the director of the Open Society Institute New York’s Arts and Culture Program where she launched the Soros Documentary Fund (which later became the Sundance Documentary Fund).
  4. Michael Cieply; Ben Sisario (2008-04-26). "Film on Abu Ghraib Puts Focus on Paid Interviews". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-02. 'It’s not all that uncommon, it’s just something most people don’t talk about,' said Diane Weyermann, executive vice president of Participant Productions, which helped finance 'Standard Operating Procedure,' and was a producer of 'An Inconvenient Truth' and 'Jimmy Carter Man From Plains.'
  5. Jeremy Kay (2019-11-18). "Oscar committee co-chairs explain the international category name change". Screen Daily magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-11. This season — their second at the helm — they preside over a renamed category in which 92 submissions (matching the previous record set in 2017) are vying to follow in the footsteps of ROMA and reign supreme at the 92nd annual awards on February 9, 2020.
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