Diane is an Academy Award®-winning, Emmy® Award nominated producer and the co-founder of Fishbowl Films, a full service media production company aimed to bring urgent issues and inspirational storytelling into the spotlight. Her films have screened in the most prestigious festivals across the globe and she has worked with companies like HBO/MAX, National Geographic, Netflix, Showtime, and PBS. Fishbowl Films is a SIMA Awards finalist, won a Peabody Award in 2019 for Inventing Tomorrow, and received the 2020 Sundance Institute/Amazon Producer’s Award for Whirlybird. Navalny won both the U.S. Documentary Audience Award and the Festival Favorite Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded a BAFTA, PGA, DuPont, and the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

Additional credits include: THE FINAL YEAR, IF I LEAVE HERE TOMORROW, BELUSHI, ON THE DIVIDE, STUTZ, HOLLYWOODGATE, the Emmy-nominated TINA and KING COAL, and the Emmy-winning BLINK. She has produced docu-series such as FIVE CAME BACK, TRIAL BY MEDIA, EQUAL, and THE PROGRAM: CONS, CULTS, and KIDNAPPING, which launched a Senate Finance Committee investigation after its successful launch on Netflix. Her latest film, THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME an APOCALOPTIMIST premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and will be released theatrically by Focus Features this spring.

Hailing from a small town in Massachusetts, Diane has a BA in photojournalism from RIT and a masters in Producing from AFI. Diane was a Sundance Documentary Creative Producing Fellow, a Dear Producer Award winner and is a member of BAFTA, the Producers Guild of America (PGA), the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA), the Television Academy, and the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).