Diana Haro: Up and coming in the film industry
Filmmaker Diana Haro is a young talent originally from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. She is a film consultant, with the aim of supporting the seventh art, her passion for filmmaking goes beyond borders, she has participated in important film and tv projects that have received international awards and overall audience recognition.
“My job is very fun; I absolutely love it, it is my career, I have traveled to many places. I started in Tijuana with Ivan Zapien in commercial productions, which gave me a good foundation for handling the production side. Then came the opportunity to work with Pablo Cruz, my first mentor, and with whom I worked on ‘Miss Bala’ from Sony Pictures starring Gina Rodriguez and Ismael Cruz Cordoba. In Mexico City, we were involved in ‘Luis Miguel: The Series’ available on Netflix, and since I haven’t stopped working,” commented Diana Haro.
The Tijuana native moved to Mexico City, where she studied Production Design in Film, a program by acclaimed Production Designer Brigitte Broch. With this experience, Diana was able to develop her skills in set design, applying various techniques as a film consultant in productions like her latest short film, Pen, Again and Ikigai.
Crafting cinematic dreams urgently
That same year, she got a scholarship to study the independent film program “Write, Shoot, Live” at the Superior School of Cinema in Mexico City with award-winning filmmaker Paula Markovitch. In 2019, she studied an Audiovisual Production Program at the Autonomous University of Mexico. In New York, she took workshops in writing and screenplay production; at UnionDocs, where she studied a documentary development course linked to politics.
Long before deciding to study film, I was part of a film project: Feliz Año Nuevo, where I had my first experience on set and as an Associate Producer, in that project I was involved in post-production as well; the film is available on Amazon Prime. I believe we can bring something different as trilingual individuals.”
Her work on the film America’s Family received the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for Feature Films in Competition at the 25th annual ‘Dances with Films’ festival in Los Angeles, California. Her personal projects, like the documentary Portrait of a Person Through Their Absence, received a grant from the Mexican Film Institute. A Road Awaits received five international awards, among other recognitions around the world. Haro is a proud member of the international filmmakers collective and nonprofit organization Brown Girls Doc Mafia. She wants to keep directing and producing.
Exploring visual storytelling depths
The filmmaker has immersed herself in a process of learning and self-discovery through moving images and as a film consultant, based on her life experiences as memory exercised through feeling.
Coming soon to the big screen is The WingWalker, where Diana directed the Second Unit of the film, a feature directed by Alonso Álvarez Barreda, known for FX shows such as Snowfall, the movie starring the great Omar Chaparro and Max Arciniega, from Breaking Bad.
“It was such a pleasure and a blessing to work on The WingWalker. I met Alonso Alvarez Barreda during the production of Coyote, a Paramount+ tv show starring Michael Chiklis, back then Alonso told me about his film, his career path, I read the script, a script that took him and Max 10 years to write and develop. It is a source of pride and inspiration for me to be part of the film. I feel that it is a project very close to me and to my heart. It will be released in theaters in October 2024,” concluded Haro.
