DIANE MOY QUON

Diane Quon is an Academy Award-nominated producer who worked as a marketing executive at NBC and at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles before moving back to her hometown of Chicago with her family. 

With a long-time desire to produce her own films and after watching some wonderful documentaries while attending her first Sundance Film Festival in 2013, Diane decided to try her hand at directing/producing a short documentary in 2015 (thank you, Cliff!). Since then, Diane has produced multiple documentaries often with emerging and BIPOC directors at the helm. Her first four films were Kartemquin Films co-productions including: the Oscar and Emmy-nominated, Peabody and Sundance award-winning film, Minding the Gap directed by Bing Liu (Sundance 2018, POV, Hulu); Emmy-nominated Finding Yingying directed by Jiayan “Jenny” Shi (SXSW 2020, MTVDocs); The Dilemma of Desire with director Maria Finitzo (SXSW 2020, Showtime); and For the Left Hand (Woodstock 2021, PBS) directed by Kartemquin founder, Gordon Quinn, and Leslie Simmer.

In addition, Diane produced the Oscar short-listed Bad Axe directed by David Siev (SXSW 2022, IFC Films); Emmy-nominated Wuhan Wuhan directed by Yung Chang (Hot Docs 2021, POV); Surf Nation (Mountainfilm Telluride 2022, World Channel); Breaking the News (Tribeca 2023, Indie Lens) and aka Mr. Chow (Telluride 2023, HBO/Max). At the same time, Diane was able to executive produce the documentaries of many filmmakers directing their first features. 

Diane is currently developing a fiction feature based on the New York Times best-selling book, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, along with producing and executive producing many new projects.

Diane is an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences member, a Television Academy member, and a DPA and PGA member. She is a recipient of the 2020 Cinereach Producer Award, and is a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow, an IFP Cannes Producer Fellow and a Film Independent Fellow. She is a very proud mother of four.