Diana Williams is the CEO & Co-founder of Kinetic Energy Entertainment, a multi-platform venture studio specializing in transforming ideas into IP that is entertaining, culturally relevant, media agnostic and accessible, supercharged by today’s technology.
She is an award-winning producer with franchise IP expertise across all media including video games, film/TV, and interactive/immersive location based experiences.
With a mission to support creative innovation and cultural impact, she operates at the convergence of entertainment, business and technology.
Prior to Kinetic, Diana was the Creative Development and Franchise Producer for Star Wars at Lucasfilm, overseeing film and tv (including Star Wars Rebels, Rogue One), mobile and console video games (including 2015’s Battlefront), and publishing (Marvel’s Star Wars comics and novel expansions).
While at Lucasfilm she was one of the founders of ILM Immersive (formerly ILMxLAB), the immersive entertainment and VR/AR/mixed reality lab behind award-winning experiences including Vader Immortal for Oculus/Meta, Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire for The Void, and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Academy Award© winning VR experience Carne y Arena.
Diana was the Executive Producer of the documentary Number One on the Call Sheet (currently streaming on Apple+). She also produced the critically acclaimed feature film Our Song, which earned her a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award in the Producer category.
Other productions include documentaries Room 237, the Emmy© award-winning Sylvia Drew Ivie, Student Academy Award©-nominated Another First Step, Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible, Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis, and Dear Mom Love Cher.
Previously the Chair of the Peabody Interactive Board of Jurors for digital and immersive storytelling for the Peabody Award, Diana is on the Strategic Planning Committee of The National Academy of Sciences’ Science and Entertainment Exchange; the advisory committee for the Royal Shakespeare Company/Digital development; and on the boards of Diverso (a non-profit organization led by students for students to empower the under-represented storytellers of the next generation), The Overlook Film Festival (genre festival), and The Immersive Experience Institute for interactive and immersive events, theater, and creators.
Diana is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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