Diana Toucedo

Spanish filmmaker and editor Diana Toucedo is a core tutor at the Master of Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Netherlands Film Academy. She also teaches at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF/BSM). She was head of the Documentary and non-fiction department at ESCAC (Barcelona), and has taught at the MA in Film and Television, Documentary Film at Aalto University in Helsinki, the MA FRAME (Madrid) and at Noka program of Tabakalera (International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian). 

She is also working on a practice-based PhD in Communication that explores how moving images deal with identities, memories, historical crystallizations and social tensions. Diana’s practice sits at the intersection of cinema and research. 

Her work has been selected for various film festivals including Berlinale, IDFA, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Nara International Film Festival, Sao Paulo International Film Festival, FIDBA, Pesaro, DocLisboa and Visions du Réel and museums like CCCB, Centre Pompidou or Centro Cultural Kirchner. She has edited more than 25 feature films that premiered and won awards at IDFA, Rotterdam, Cannes Semaine de la Critique, Moscow International FF, etc. She has also edited series for Netflix, HBO and Movistar. 

You can read more about Diana’s general practice here and her research projects A future time arriving and passing here and Editing as a Research Tool, Performativity, and Displacement here