Diana Rice
Production Designer / Art Director
Nashville
Close to the end of 2019 Diana Rice Production Designed her fourth feature film, Laugh. Love. Karaoke., at the age of 30. Check out her website at dianariceart.com
Early in 2019 Diana Production Designed the feature film, The Violent Heart which was written and directed by Kerem Sanga and stars Mary J. Blige, Jovan Adepo, Grace Van Patten and Lukas Haas. It was produced by Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Ed McDonnell and Tobey Maguire.
After production wrapped she has stayed busy art directing commercials for Jack Daniels, Burlington with CMT, and DISH Network with American Pickers. She has prop styled stills campaigns with Airbnb, Cracker Barrel, and Bush's Baked Beans instagram debut for Duke Bush!
In 2018 Diana production designed an international commercial campaign for Maker's Mark as well as a feature film in upstate New York called The Shed working with Peter Block, the executive producer of the SAW franchise. She enjoyed designing for Cracker Barrel, O'Charley's, CMT, Crest White Strips, Diamond Producers of America, Merck and Wrangler to name a few.
In 2017 Diana production designed projects for Apple Music, Sony, Flying Pilot J, The Tennessee Lottery, the US Men's Soccer Team and HSN. She was recently the set decorator for the feature film House of the Witch and the Jack Daniel's "Lynchburg Lights" national commercial.
At Sundance 2017 Diana made her Production Designer debut for the feature film Columbus directed by Kogonada, starring John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey and Michelle Forbes. It was produced by Andrew Miano, Aaron Boyd, Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Chris Weitz, Giulia Caruso, and Ki Jin Kim.
She has worked on nine feature films, several CMT Music Video of the Year videos, worked in Canada and Mexico with Eddie Bauer as an assistant prop stylist, and went to Sundance 2011 for the feature film JESS+MOSS as the 2nd Unit Producer.
Diana first started in production working with several local companies producing short format commercials and web content including guests Steve Cropper, Alan LeQuire, Nashville Children's Theatre and Anne Brown of The Arts Company. She was the President of the MTSU Film Guild overseeing the production of over thirty short films, many of which saw film festival success.
Diana's production work has taken her to Egypt, South Korea, England, Mexico and Canada.