Grantee

Diane Becker

Producer

Diane Becker is an LA-based documentary and feature film producer and a graduate of the American Film Institute. She has worked with the award-winning Passion Pictures and Motto Pictures on films including Sergio, Manhunt, Chicken People, and Legion of Brothers. The team’s latest film with Greg Barker, The Final Year, chronicling the last year of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy team, premiered in January 2018. She and producer Melanie Miller founded Fishbowl Films in 2009 and their latest narrative film, Alaska is a Drag, is currently screening in festivals around the globe. Other credits include We are X, about Japan’s biggest rock band in history (World Cinema Documentary Best Editing Award, 2016 Sundance Film Festival) and the Netflix documentary series Five Came Back, executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Scott Rudin. Diane was chosen as one of five of the 2017 Sundance Documentary Creative Producing Fellows. Her new film with director Stephen Kijak, Lynryd Skynryd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow, will premiere on Showtime in August 2018. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).