Diane Bell is a Scottish filmmaker who works and resides in

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Early life and education

Bell grew up in Japan, Australia and Germany. She graduated with a master's degree in

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from the

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. She practices Ashtanga yoga, and taught yoga in

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, Spain.

Career

Her first film as writer/director,

Obselidia ''Obselidia'' is a 2010 American drama film written and directed by Diane Bell, starring Michael Piccirilli, Gaynor Howe and Frank Hoyt Taylor. The film won two awards at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival: the Excellence in Cinematography award a ...

, premiered at the

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2010 in Dramatic Narrative Competition and won two awards, the Alfred P. Sloan Award and Excellence in Cinematography. It was singled out by Todd McCarthy in Variety as the only film in dramatic competition that "is so far off the grid of what is expected of an independent film that it can truly be said to rebel." It won Best Feature at the Ashland Independent Film Festival, was selected for Best of Fest at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and went on to be nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards 2011, the

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and Best First Screenplay. She was selected for Sundance Screenwriting Lab 2011, with STEM, for which she was awarded the Sloan Development Fund at the Tribeca Film Institute. Her second film, '' Bleeding Heart'', premiered at the

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in April 2015. It stars

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and Zosia Mamet.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bell, Diane American women film directors American women film producers American film producers American women screenwriters Living people People from Dumfries Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Year of birth missing (living people) Alfred P. Sloan Prize winners 21st-century American women