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Diana Larrea is a Peruvian award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist based in Miami, FL, and Cusco, Perú. Her work bridges documentary storytelling and visual art to explore migration, memory, and identity. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Oolite Arts.
Her directorial debut, Monarcas, won the 2024 Emmy Award for Best Documentary in the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion category. Her latest film, Querido Pequeño Haiti (2023), premiered at the Miami Film Festival and was an official selection at the New Orleans Film Festival and the Festival de Cine de Lima. Her upcoming short documentary, Hatun Sonqo, which focuses on the preservation of Indigenous languages and heritage in South Florida, received Oolite Arts’ Ellies Creator Award and was selected for the Knight Heroes Short Documentary Development Program, supported by IF/Then and the Knight Foundation.
Diana’s multidisciplinary project I Left Too Soon explores absence, identity, and memory through family archives, video, and textiles. Her work has been exhibited in What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women at the Miami Public Library, Environmental Futures III at the Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, I Am Little Haiti at Green Space Miami, M.S.N.M. at Maleza Casa Studio in Cusco, and Caminantes at FATVillage Arts District in Fort Lauderdale, among others.
With over a decade of documenting Miami’s art scene and communities affected by development, gentrification, and colonialism, Diana continues to create work that preserves cultural narratives, amplifies underrepresented voices, and reimagines histories through both personal and collective lenses.
Diana holds an Associate's degree in Film Production from Miami-Dade College. She began her career as a TV and documentary editor and was nominated for the 2025 United States Artists Fellowship.