A Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow (2022), Diroy is the editor of the feature documentary, Standing Above the Clouds (2024), which world-premiered at Hot Docs and won the Bill Nemtin Social Impact Award. In 2019, she edited the short version of the film, which won Best Documentary Short at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Diroy also edited Fire Through Dry Grass, Best Feature Documentary at the BlackStar Film Festival, a New York Times Critic’s Pick, and part of POVÊ»s Season 36 on PBS. In 2021, Diroy was selected for the Sundance Art of Editing Fellowship and in 2018 was a selected fellow for the Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Program.
In addition to editing, Diroy is the co-director and DP of We Are They, an experimental dance documentary highlighting the work of Filipino health care workers living in Queens, New York during the height of the pandemic. The short film is currently featured at MoMA PS1 through October 2024. Her cinematography work in the documentary shorts Keep Saray Home (2020) and Libre (2019) has screened at Hot Docs, the Sundance Film Festival, and CAAMFest. Her work reflects her interests in social justice, indigenous rights, women-centered stories, climate change, immigration, and identity. Diroy also previously worked at CNN Digital, editing quick-turn news videos, and producing and filming character-driven pieces for CNN Travel.
When Diroy isnʻt creating, sheʻs teaching. She currently teaches video editing at UC Berkeleyʻs Graduate School of Journalism and has previously taught youth at the Bay Area Video Coalition and the Educational Video Center in New York. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and continuously strives to collaborate, build community, and make magic with other creatives locally and remotely.
She’s also a proud member of Brown Girl Doc Mafia, Authority Collective, A-Doc, and BIPOC Doc Edtiors.
