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Diana Whitten
New York
Director/Producer/Cinematographer
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Title/Occupation:  Cinematographer  Director  Producer 
Services Provided:  Film/Video Editing  Graphic/Title Design 
Gender: Female

Biography: 

Diana Whitten is a filmmaker with nine years of professional film/TV direction, production and design experience, including work with On the Leesh Productions, Naked Angels, Pterodactyl Films, Little Airplane Production Company for Disney Children’s Programming, Nickelodeon, and the Noggin Channel, B-Productions, for British MTV, and for comedian Mike Myers. She has directed and designed films that appeared over 25 international film
festivals. A graduate of Tufts University (BA), the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (BFA), and the Newschool Program in International Media (MA), she was a Fulbright Fellow to Indonesia in 2000 documenting the political use of shadow theater. In 2006 she founded Sovereignty Productions, a forum to use film/video and installation work to explore how sovereign spaces, those offshore and of exile, can be isolated and charged by activist agendas that challenge accepted frameworks in the name of social change.

Sovereignty Productions’ first project, Vessel, is a feature length documentary film about international NGO and its captain, Rebecca Gomperts, who sail a ship through loopholes in international law to countries where abortion is illegal, working with local organizations to help women with no other option to have safe, legal abortions on the high seas. Vessel is currently in post-production, with estimated completion in 2011.

Diana currently works as the Communications Manager for Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program, where she helps document the work of hundreds of grant recipients working globaly for social justice issues.