Ramona S. Diaz is a Peabody, The Gotham, International Documentary Association, and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and a nominee for the Gawad Urian Awards, Producers Guild of America, and Independent Spirit Awards. Her films have screened and won awards at top international festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Tribeca Festival, SXSW Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

Her independently produced films include IMELDA (2004), THE LEARNING (2011), DON’T STOP BELIEVIN’: EVERYMAN’S JOURNEY (2012), MOTHERLAND (2017), and A THOUSAND CUTS (2020), all of which have screened theatrically and been broadcast internationally. Her latest film, AND SO IT BEGINS, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was selected as the Philippines’ official entry for the 97th Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category.

Ramona is both a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and a United States Artists Fellow, and was named the inaugural McGurn Family Trust Resident in Film by the American Academy in Rome. In 2024, she received the Marek Nowicki Award from the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights for lifetime achievement in advancing human rights through film. She divides her time between the U.S. and the Philippines.