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Diana Larrea is a Peruvian documentary filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist based between Miami and Cusco. She is a 2025 South Florida Cultural Consortium grantee and a 2024–25 resident artist at Oolite Arts.
Working across photography, film, and installation, Larrea examines migration, memory, and cultural continuity. Drawing from family photographs, documents, and testimonies, her work approaches displacement as both a lived and inherited condition, reflecting on absence, intergenerational memory, and cultural transmission.
Her directorial debut, Monarcas, received a 2024 Emmy Award for Best Documentary in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion category. Her experimental film Querido Pequeño Haití premiered at the Miami Film Festival, was selected for the New Orleans Film Festival, and aired nationally on PBS.
Larrea’s upcoming documentary, Q’uñi Pacha, focuses on the preservation of Andean traditions within Miami’s diasporic communities. The project 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.
With over a decade of documenting Miami’s art scene and communities affected by development and gentrification, Larrea’s practice centers on cultural resistance. It explores how histories are reimagined through personal and collective lenses.
Her work has been presented at film festivals, on broadcast platforms, and in exhibition contexts in the United States and internationally. She studied Film Production at Miami-Dade College and began her career as an editor for television networks and cultural institutions.