Diane Weyermann, Award-Winning Documentary Producer, Dies at 66

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Diane Weyermann, an Emmy-winning documentary producer and the chief content officer at Participant Media, has died after a battle with lung cancer. She was 66.

Weyermann, who served as director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program prior to joining Participant in 2005, executive produced the Oscar-winning feature docs “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Citizenfour.”

She also worked on such nonfiction hits as the Oscar nominated Robert Kenner’s “Food Inc.” (which won two Emmy Awards in 2011), Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s “RBG,” Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Look of Silence” as well as Margaret Brown’s Emmy-nominated “The Great Invisible.”

Diane Weyermann, Award-Winning Documentary Producer, Dies at 66

Weyermann most recently served as chief content officer at Participant

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