Diana has been working in global film journalism since 2005. Before returning to Deadline in 2021 to focus on features for international film and television, she was previously International Reporter for the site. She is based in London and has frequently covered all the major film festivals and markets including Cannes, Berlin, AFM, Toronto and Sundance. Prior to joining Deadline, Diana was the UK correspondent for Variety and also covered film news and box office at Screen International.
It’s been an eventful 2023 for international TV and film. As the strikes shut down Hollywood and streamers retrenched from the mega-spends of the Covid era, shows and movies from far and wide remained in demand like never before, as viewers continued to look to new countries for inspiration. Call it the Sq…
EXCLUSIVE: Frank Grillo has joined Olga Kurylenko and Oliver Trevena for Kevin Lewis' latest feature thriller Misdirection, which is currently shooting in Serbia.
The film follows a desperate couple (Kurylenko and Trevena) who have been pulling off a string of high-end robberies, only to find…
Dennis Ruh, whose departure as head of the Berlinale’s European Film Market after the 2024 edition was announced today, has expressed surprise that his contract has not been renewed and also questioned the festival’s new hiring protocols.
Ruh revealed he was being let go in an earlier statement…
2018 Everyone Is a Hero writer-director Jude Anthany Joseph was a victim of the 2018 Kerala floods in southern India, a catastrophic natural disaster that was the worst flood to hit the region in more than a century.
"My house was flooded, and it happened so quickly that in the morning after it…
After stumbling upon a story through a link on Facebook about a team of blind footballers from Egypt who arrived in Warsaw and disappeared into thin air after it turned out they could actually see, writer-director
"They literally disappeared into thin air and it turned out they could all see," Hilal…
For Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari, her debut feature Shayda has served as an authentic and honest exploration into her own personal childhood trauma. The film, which is being released by Sony Pictures Classics and won the World Cinema Dramatic Competition Audience Award in Sundance earlier…
Red Sea Film Festival Managing Director Shivani Pandya Malhotra took a break from her busy schedule at this year's third edition of the festival to come into Deadline's Red Sea Studio and shed light on how this year's edition has been unfolding since it began on November 30.
Pandya Malhotra noted…
British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi stepped into Deadline's Red Sea studio this week to talk about her debut feature The Teacher, the challenges of shooting a film in Palestine and how the journey of the film has changed since the Israel-Hamas war began this year following the October 7…
For Saudi actress Ida AlKusay, starring in Rise of the Witches, the country's biggest show to date featuring a local cast and crew, was a dream come true.
"I got the part of my favorite character in my favorite novel that I used to read every day on the bus going to school," AlKusay told Deadline's…
"It was a dream come true to be able to shoot my first movie and it's a very personal story," said Paz Vega of her feature directorial debut Rita, which she shot earlier this year.
The coming-of-age drama, which is set in 1984, follows 7-year-old Rita and her 5-year-old brother Lolo from a working…
Catherine Martin has worked with Baz Luhrmann for 30 years and the costume and production designer says that each project offers up its own unique set of challenges that make her feel like she's doing her "doctorate in film studies all over again."
Stepping into Deadline's Red Sea Studio at the Red…
Muvi Cinemas' Adon Quinn stepped into Deadline's Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to talk about how rapidly the country's exhibition sector is growing and what is driving the burgeoning sector into cinemas.
Quinn noted that Muvi opened its first location in Jeddah in August 2019 and now has…