Diane Paragas is a documentary and commercial director. She co-directed the film Brooklyn Boheme with Nelson George

Nelson George

Nelson George is an African American author, columnist, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker. He has been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award....

 set to be released in 2012. She has produced and directed for TV programs on PBS, Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...

, Bravo, IFC

Independent Film Channel

The Independent Film Channel is an American cable TV network that airs independent film and related programming. IFC programming includes commercially interrupted feature-length films, original documentaries, shorts, animated series, original series, acquired series, and content exclusively for...

, Oxygen

Oxygen (TV channel)

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 and BET

Bet

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. As a commercial director, she has directed campaigns for American Airlines

American Airlines

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, Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Mark Cuomo is the 56th and current Governor of New York, having assumed office on January 1, 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 64th New York State Attorney General, and was the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...

, care.com and Proust.com for which she won first place in the Google

Google

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TV For All Contest. She is currently developing a feature narrative entitled FROZEN about the controversial Indian Surrogacy industry.