[3] After working in legal aid, she returned to school and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in film at Columbia College Chicago in 1992.

[4] In addition to the 2021 twice Academy Award-nominated Collective (for Best Feature Documentary as well as Best International Feature),[5] Participant’s recent documentary projects which Weyermann oversaw include the Oscar winner American Factory,[6] Emmy-nominated City So Real,[7] John Lewis: Good Trouble,[8] Sing Me a Song, Slay the Dragon, Watson, Aquarela,[9] Foster,[10] America to Me, The Price of Free, Far from the Tree, Human Flow,[11] An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,[12] The Music of Strangers: Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble,[13] and Zero Days.

[18] Prior to joining Participant in 2005, Weyermann was the founding director of the Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Program.

[19] Titles with which Weyermann was involved before her death include Final Account,[20] David Byrne’s American Utopia, My Name is Pauli Murray,[21] and the upcoming releases The First Wave, Flee,[22] Unseen Skies, White Coat Rebels, and Invisible Demons.

[23] The 2022 Netflix four-part docuseries Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, which examines convicted rapist Warren Jeffs' rise in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, along with aspects of the lives of FLDS members, is dedicated to Diane Weyermann.