IFA Chicago Welcomes Diane Quon!

Diane Quon is an Academy Award-nominated producer who worked as a marketing executive at NBC and Paramount Pictures before moving back to her hometown of Chicago. Diane has produced the Kartemquin documentaries: Oscar and Emmy-nominated, Peabody award-winning, Minding the Gap directed by Bing Liu (POV, Hulu); Finding Yingying directed by Jenny Shi (MTVDocs); The Dilemma of Desire directed by Maria Finitzo (SXSW 2020); and For the Left Hand along with Howard Reich, and co-directed by Leslie Simmer and Gordon Quinn. She is producing the upcoming documentaries, Untitled Sam Project, directed by Nadav Kurtz; The Untitled 19th* News Film by Heather Courtney and Chelsea Hernandez; and Wuhan Wuhan directed by Yung Chang. She is also developing a fiction film based on a New York Times best-selling book, as well as Bing Liu’s original screenplay. Diane is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, a recipient of the 2020 Cinereach Producer Award, and is a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow.

We're so excited to have Diane Quon join us!

We’re lucky to have filmmaker, Yvonne Welbon, moderate this discussion.

Yvonne Welbon is an award-winning filmmaker and founder and CEO of the Chicago-based non-profit Sisters in Cinema, inspired by her documentary of the same name, about the history of Black women feature film directors. She is a Senior Creative Consultant at Chicken & Egg Pictures, and has produced and distributed dozens of award-winning films, including Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis @100.  Welbon’s work has been broadcast on PBS, Starz/Encore, TV-ONE, IFC, Bravo, the Sundance Channel, BET, HBO, Netflix, iTunes and screened in over one hundred film festivals around the world. Projects in development include The Spies Who Loved Me, a thrilling exposé on surveillance which focuses on the six-years she lived in Taipei, Taiwan and American Pride, a Black lesbian coming-of-age series set on the south-side of Chicago. She has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and chaired the Journalism & Media Studies Department at Bennett College.  Raised in an Afro-Latinx Honduran household on the South Side of Chicago, Welbon holds a B.A from Vassar College, a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and is a graduate of the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women. In 2020 she became a member of the Documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. 

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