Diana Ward is a Los Angeles-based Australian producer. Her feature documentary Roller
Dreams premiered at the 2017 Sydney Film Festival, winning the Foxtel Audience Award for
Best Documentary and also played the LA Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival, amongst
others. Roller Dreams is slated for release in June 2018. Ward produced sci-fi short Anamnesis,
which has won awards around the world. In Australia she produced three award-winning short
films with first time directors; Danielle McCarthy’s Old War, Rachael Turk’s Jailbirds and Cath
Moore’s Shelling Peas, all of which have been broadcast. One of her favorite producing
moments was arranging a piano to be smashed by a train for a music video for artist Andy Bull.
Ward champions female storytellers and stories and in addition to developing numerous feature
projects, she is proud to be a 2018 Film Independent Project Involve Producing Fellow.