Diana Dai's Profile

Xiaoping Diana Dai
Tel: 416 648 2168, Fax: 416 588 8518
Email:Diana@dianadai.ca

A Gemini award winner, Diana Dai’s rich international working experience in the media field has made her work outstanding. Diana produced and directed three documentaries with CBC and Vision TV between 2007 to 2009. These documentaries were all critically acclaimed by the Global and Mail and other media. The documentary "China Earthquake: The People in the Pictures", she produced with CBC has won a 2009 Gemini award in the "Best History Documentary" category.

Professional Activities:

August 2008 to April 2009: Producer for documentary “China earthquake, the people in the pictures”, CBC.


Oct 2007 to July 2008: Co-director of a two-part television documentary “China’s leap of faith”, Cogent/Benger production, Vision TV


Oct 2007, Consultant for Bombardier commercial film-shoot in Shanghai, La Fabrique d’images, Montreal


March 1996 to April 2007: Associate Producer / Host for OMNI News Mandarin Dept.
One of the founders of the Mandarin program, and was in charge of the Mandarin Unit during the tenure. This also included some of the following outstanding special programs:

Hosted the three hours live trilingual coverage “Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997”,
Hosted and produced “federal and provincial election programming”,
Hosted and produced “Head tax apology”,
Hosted and produced “Chinese President Hu Jintao visit to Canada”,
Hosted and produced “Taiwan election”,
Hosted “Yip’s choir in China”
Hosted and produced “World cup 2007” series.
Hosted and Produced one hour special “Macau Returns”

1995 to 1996: Freelance Broadcaster for Radio Canada International, CBC
1994 to 1995: Editor for bilingual magazine ‘Siyu Chinese times’, England,

Teaching Chinese language at the University of Leeds, England

1989 to 1990: Journalist / Reporter for ‘Hainan development daily’ newspaper, China

Education:

MA in Communication Studies, University of Leeds, England, 1993
BA in Literature, Hang Zhou University, China, 1989.