Diane Maroger is a French documentary editor and director born in 1966. She studied at the National Beaux Arts School Paris in Vladimir Veličković workshop, then earned a B.A in Art History at the American University in Paris. With an MFA from the National Film School La FEMIS specialized in editing, she cut mainstream television documentaries as well as artists’ films – at Studio National du Fresnoy among other places. For her directorial debut project « Visible Women, travels dedicated to a girl child » (English working titled) she filmed the Berkeley disability arts community, portraying and interviewing disabled poet Cheryl Marie Wade extensively. The shooting, also meant to feature women from Greece, France and Ireland, albeit supported by the French National Film Board (CNC), was left unfinished when her producer pulled out. Her next documentary Maternité Interdite (2000 – 53min) was coproduced and broadcast by France 3 as well as other European and North African national tv channels. It won the LorquinFestival Golden Key (First Prize). 

In 2003 Diane went on to create the Festival Retour d’image – the first of its kind in France to showcase feature length movies to make space for disabled audiences’ thoughts about the representation of characters with disabilities in film. Inspired by British disability film festivals of which all the works screened were audiodescribed and captioned, with debates translated in Sign Language, she conducted and produced four editions of this inclusive festival, spanning from classic films and contemporary ones, allin major film venues. In 2012 she was asked by the French Culture Secretary of State and CNC to organize a national symposium on the accessibility of films and theatres. Retour d’image’s non profit, which ran the festival, then developed into a resource center, producing educational and training workshops.  

In 2018, Diane became an associate of Decia Film, a production company founded by David Rosier where she develops documentary projects.

Two years ago, Diane approached Lucie Camous and Etienne Chosson (founder of the translation platform Crashroop.ooo), in the hope of getting late Cheryl Marie Wade’s poems and performances she had filmed translated into French. Seeing her rushes, the curators asked Diane to make a selection, which is now screened as two videos pieces at the Palais de Tokyo.