Diane Weyermann
Executive Vice President of Documentary Films
As Executive Vice President, Documentary Films, Diane Weyermann is responsible for Participant Media’s documentary films.
Participant's current documentary projects include Jessica Yu’s Last Call at the Oasis and Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush’s Finding North, as well as films about unconventional Israeli and Palestinian efforts towards peace and legendary entertainer Bill Cosby. Previous releases include the Oscar®-nominated, Emmy-winning Food, Inc., Waiting for “Superman," Countdown to Zero, the Emmy-nominated Pressure Cooker, Climate of Change, Standard Operating Procedure, Chicago 10, Angels in the Dust, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains, Darfur Now, CASINO JACK and the United States of Money and the Oscar®-winning An Inconvenient Truth.
Prior to joining Participant in October 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 launched two annual documentary film labs, focusing on the creative process--one dealing with editing and storytelling, and the other with music. Diane was also part of the Sundance Film Festival programming team, where she was instrumental in creating a platform for international documentary work and responsible for programming the documentary content of the Filmmaker Lodge activities.
Weyermann’s work in the documentary and international fields extends many years prior to Sundance. She was the Director of the Open Society Institute New York's Arts and Culture Program for seven years. In addition to her work with contemporary art centers and culture programs in the Soros Foundation network, which spans over 30 countries, she launched the Soros Documentary Fund (which later became the Sundance Documentary Fund) in 1996. Since the inception of the Fund, she has been involved with the production of over 300 documentary films from around the world.
