In her role at Participant, Weyermann was responsible for the company’s documentary feature film and television productions. In addition to the 2021 twice Academy Award-nominated
Collective (for Best Feature Documentary as well as Best International Feature), Participant’s recent documentary projects which Weyermann oversaw include the Oscar winner
American Factory, Emmy-nominated
City So Real,
John Lewis: Good Trouble,
Sing Me a Song,
Slay the Dragon,
Watson,
Aquarela,
Foster,
America to Me,
The Price of Free,
Far from the Tree,
Human Flow,
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,
The Music of Strangers: Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, and
Zero Days. Previous releases include Oscar-winning films,
CITIZENFOUR and
An Inconvenient Truth, Oscar-nominated
RBG, Oscar-nominated
The Look of Silence, Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning
Food, Inc., and Emmy-nominated
The Great Invisible. In 2018, Weyermann was named as a co-chair of the Oscars’ Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee. Prior to joining Participant in 2005, Weyermann was the founding director of the
Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Program. In 2001, when she joined Sundance Institute to run international activities, the Soros Fund was moved to Sundance Institute, where she began laying the groundwork for what became the Documentary Film Program. During her tenure at Sundance, she launched two annual documentary film labs, focusing on the creative process and the use of compositions in documentary film. Before her time at Sundance, she was director of the
Open Society Institute New York’s Arts and Culture Program where she launched the Soros Documentary Fund which later became the Sundance Documentary Fund. Titles with which Weyermann was involved before her death include
Final Account,
David Byrne’s American Utopia,
My Name is Pauli Murray, and the upcoming releases
The First Wave,
Flee,
Unseen Skies,
White Coat Rebels, and
Invisible Demons. The 2022
Netflix four-part docuseries
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, which examines convicted rapist
Warren Jeffs' rise in the
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, along with aspects of the lives of FLDS members, is dedicated to Diane Weyermann. Diane served as an executive producer on the series. ==Personal life==