Diana Parry is a Cinematographer based in Vancouver, Canada. As a mixed woman of Canadian and Mi’kmaq decent; her focus is narrative content as she strives to use the camera as a tool to support the powerful stories with complex characters and significant themes typically found in the diverse projects she works on.

 

Her first feature documentary In the Room has been nominated for a Leo Award in 2026 for Best Cinematography for a Feature Documentary and won the Audience Award for the Showcase program at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2025. She has won Best Cinematography for Canadian Documentary Short Film Award at Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2023 for Overtime and won Best Cinematography at the Vancouver Shorts Film Festival 2020 for the film Laura. Diana also received a nomination for Best Cinematography at the Chilliwack Film Festival 2019 and was a recipient of the Storyhive and NSI Fellowship program for ImagineNATIVE Film Festival in 2019.

 

Diana’s work has been screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Hot Docs, imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival, New York International Children’s Film Festival, the Indie Short Awards at Cannes, the Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at the American Film Pavillion at Cannes, and more.

 

Diana recently wrapped principle production on her second feature documentary, an animal conservation story titled Qwayaciik with the National Film Board of Canada and Seal Folk Films.

 

She has been an Associate Member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers since late 2022 and was a mentee in the American Society of Cinematographer’s Vision mentorship program in 2024/2025.

 

Diana is a member of Membertou First Nations located on Unama’ki - Cape Breton Island.