Diana Dai Communications Inc., based in Toronto, Canada, offers TV and film production services, including narrative, documentary, series, and commercials.
Founded by Diana Dai, a Canadian Screen Award (Gemini) winner in 2009, the company aims to broaden perspectives and bridge cultural differences through compelling storytelling.
Diana’s films have been broadcast on CBC, TVO, Alliance Films, Bell Media Inc., Vision TV, and the Documentary Channel, and internationally across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Her work has received numerous awards at international film festivals, including the Platinum Remi Award at WorldFest-Houston. Her films are also housed in prestigious university collections, including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, as well as in national libraries worldwide.
Her feature drama screenplay, Dear Niece, was named a Second Rounder in the one of the most prestigious and reputable screenwriting competitions in the industry – Austin Film Festival (AFF) Screenplay Competition in 2026, placing it among the top 15–20% of more than 12,500 submissions from around the world. The screenplay also won Best Canadian Feature Screenplay at the Female Eye Film Festival in 2025.
A native of China, Diana co-founded and hosted the Mandarin program for OMNI TV upon immigrating to Canada from the UK. Trained at Warner Bros. Studio and the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, Diana holds a Master’s degree in Communication Studies from the University of Leeds in the UK. She has worked as an editor for a bilingual magazine and taught Chinese at the university level.
Diana has received fellowships from the Ontario Media Development Corporation for the HotDocs International Festival, the CTV National Fellowship for the Banff World TV Festival, the Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative, the National Screen Institute, the EVAE BIPOC Producer Program, and the Whistler film festival Producer Lab.
In addition to her filmmaking career, Diana is passionate about education, having taught Television and Film at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and contributed as an editor and writer for the textbook “Television in its Social Context.” She has also been a featured speaker at the University of Toronto, Queen’s University, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, and Fudan University.
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