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Diana Toucedo is a filmmaker and editor. She studied filmmaking at ESCAC (UB) specializing in editing and a Master’s degree in contemporary film theory at Pompeu Fabra University, and is currently studying for a PhD in Communication at the same university.

Among her thirty feature films edited to date, the documentary feature La noche que no acaba (All the night long) by director Isaki Lacuesta, produced by the TCM channel, stands out. Presented at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2010 and awarded at several festivals. O quinto evanxeo de Gaspar Hauser (The fifth gospel of Kaspar Hauser) which won the 2013 Fipresci award at the Rotterdam Film Festival, a feature film by Alberto Gracia and produced by Zeitun films. She has also edited Bugarach by Nanouk Films in co-production with Filmtank (Germany), WDR, TVE and TV3, awarded in multiple festivals and Belén, by Venezuelan director Adriana Vila in co-production with Spain and with the support of Ibermedia, premiered at Fid Marseille and awarded in multiple festivals. As well as several fictions: La muerte en la Alcarria by Fernando Pomares, Sonata para violoncello by Anna M. Bofarull and Júlia Ist by Elena Martín, produced by Lastor Media and Silver Biznaga at Malaga Festival 2017, or A estación violenta by the young Galician director Anxos Fazáns. She has also edited Penélope by Eva Vila, with the support of the Media Program, ICEC, TV3 and UPF, and the documentary Young&Beautiful by Marina Lameiro, Audience Award at Punto de Vista 2018. She has also edited the short film Los desheredados, directed by Laura Ferrés and produced by Inicia Films which won the award for best short film at the Semaine de la critique de Cannes 2017. In 2018 she has edited the fiction series Hierro, directed by Jorge Coira, produced by Portocabo and Atlantique productions for Movistar and Canal Arte, recently premiered on Seriesmania in France and available on Movistar Plus. In 2019 she edits A media voz (In a whisper), the winning documentary at IDFA 2019; as well as Enero, a documentary by Ione Atena, best European debut feature at the Gijón International Film Festival. In 2020, she has edited the series for Netflix USA, My love, directed by Chico Pereira; the feature documentary Dardara by Marina Lameiro and the fiction feature film shot in Iraq Sinjar, by Anna M. Bofarull. In 2021 she will release the feature film Los caballos mueren al amanecer (Horses die at dawn) and several short films. And in 2022 the fiction feature Secaderos (Tobacco burns) by Rocío Mesa premiered at Zabaltegui, San Sebastian Festival and public award at SXSW, and Weightless (Невагома) feature documentary shot in Ukraine and directed by Marta Hryniuk and Nick Thomas, premiered at IRFF, Rotterdam 2023. In 2024 she has edited Emergency exit, directed by Luís Miñarro.

As a director she has made several documentary and experimental short films shown at film festivals and art centers. Her first feature film Trinta Lumes had its world premiere at the Berlinale 2018 festival in the second most prestigious section, Panorama, and subsequently has been the Malaga Festival, San Sebastian, Nara Film Festival, DocLisboa, etc. It has won numerous awards at various Spanish festivals and has reached theaters with a large number of viewers. She is currently working on the post-production of Puerto Deseado, a project shot between Argentina and Galicia with the support of the AGADIC Talent grant, the ICAA, INCAA and AccióViver de Dones Visuals. In 2021 she directed the documentary and installation project Camille&Ulysse for the CCCB/Museum Pompidou and premiered at IDFA Doc Lab 2021, with philosophers Donna Haraway and Vinciane Despret. Her works also include several short films: Ser de luz (2009), Imágenes secretas (2013), Homes (2016), Corpo preto (2016), Borders (2016 ), Prekasno (2021) and Tatuado nos ollos levamos o pouso, which premiered at Visions du Reél 2022, and has won numerous festival awards. In 2024 he directed and edited the music series WayUp House Portugal for Yamaha Music, and is currently in the development of her first fiction feature film Querer vivir un grito, produced by AlbaSotorra cinema and Miramemira.

She has attended the Creators Lab with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the EAVE program, Dok.incubator, the Flaherty seminar in the USA, has been a tutor at Arché Porto-Post-Doc and DocLisboa, in the Noka program at Tabakalera San Sebastian, in COOFILM Lab, Calmadocs at Majordocs, in the Master of Artistic Practices and Cultural Studies and in the Piet Zwart Institute Lens-based Media master program in Rotterdam. She combines her profession with teaching at the BSM/Universidad Pompeu Fabra audiovisual editing postgraduate course, at the Audiovisual Communication Degree at UPF, at the ELISAVA audiovisual creativity master’s program, at the FRAME editing master’s program in Madrid, and is part of the core-team of the Master of Film at the Netherlands Film Academy.

DianaToucedo Films is born through the clear vision of producing cultivating artistic freedom of young filmmakers who explore and experiment with cinematic language and other contemporary audiovisual forms. Her experience with editing, teaching and film making lead her to take risks and go one step further. Always researching new forms of production, she seeks to create an international author film brand in the documentary / non-fiction maintaining a commercial sensibility.