Diane Bell is a Scottish filmmaker who works and resides in Los Angeles.
She graduated with a master's degree in mental philosophy from the University of Edinburgh.
[1] Her first film as writer/director, Obselidia, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2010 in Dramatic Narrative Competition and won two awards, the Alfred P. Sloan Award[2] and Excellence in Cinematography.
"[4] It won Best Feature at the Ashland Independent Film Festival,[5] was selected for Best of Fest at the Edinburgh International Film Festival[6] and went on to be nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards 2011,[7] the John Cassavetes Award and Best First Screenplay.
She was selected for Sundance Screenwriting Lab 2011,[8] with STEM, for which she was awarded the Sloan Development Fund at the Tribeca Film Institute.