Crescent Diamond is a filmmaker, educator, and transformational coach whose career began as a Hampshire College student working on Joan Braderman’s Video Bites (1998). After finishing her thesis documentary, Gracias A Dios (1999), and co-directing Silence Ain’t Sexy (2003), she co-taught video production with Joan Braderman in Cuba in 2003. She was a founding member of Radical Transmission Productions, a women’s collective which produced the activist show Streetlevel TV (2004-2006). Crescent then produced Joan Braderman’s feature documentary, THE HERETICS (2009), which premiered at the MOMA, screened internationally and is distributed to universities worldwide.
Inspired by Heresies members, Crescent pursued an MFA in Cinema at SF State University where she directed Performing Girl (2012), which won the Outfest Grand Jury Prize and the Southwest LGBTQ Festival Audience Award. She taught film theory and video production at SF State, Hampshire College and Berkeley Public Access. Following her academic career, she became a lead editor & executive producer and edited the feature documentary The Recruits (2019). Since graduating from a certified coaching program in 2020, she balances coaching with large-scale projects, including mentoring for the Bay Area Video Coalition Apprenticeship program and assisting Dana Master with organizing Joan Braderman’s archive for its permanent home. She’s thrilled to be one of the organizers of this herstoric event.
For more information, visit Crescent’s website.
