A documentary filmmaker, writer, traveler, and non-profit worker, Diana Odasso has a master's degree from NYU and a BA from the University of Chicago. Diana has worked for the Tribeca Film Festival as well as for the Tribeca Film Institute. She has also worked for Engel Brothers Entertainment, UYA Films, Ocean Productions and New York Beat Films on a range of documentaries. She has taught youth film-making at the Door and currently at Bronx Prep Charter School. She directed a documentary on troubled youth in a shantytown outside Buenos Aires, Argentina, is in pre-production on a documentary outside Sevilla, Spain and is developing a non-profit film project for the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles, Haiti.

Blog Entries by Diana Odasso

Join Artist Co-op Now for Complimentary Green Bike

Posted July 16, 2009 | 05:36 PM (EST)


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3rd Ward, an artist co-op in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, recently instituted an innovative membership perk. If you join now, for as low as $39.99 a month, you receive a brand spanking new apple-green bike, inscribed with the 3rd Ward logo. Also a free...

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Larry Mellon's Inspiring Mid-Life Crisis

Posted December 28, 2008 | 08:31 PM (EST)


One year ago, I visited Haiti for the first time. A small group of us had been invited by the Hopital Albert Schweitzer(HAS) in Deschapelles, Central Haiti. From Port-au-Prince, a van drove us five hours west along a scarred and treeless landscape, through a continuous spread of brightly painted shacks....

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alldaybuffet: Social Activism For The Cool Kids

Posted June 10, 2008 | 08:37 AM (EST)


Call it enduring a decade with a crazy Texan in the oval office, the never ending wars, global warming, the world food crisis, or the spiking price of oil, but now more than ever, we feel the urge to 'do good'. So we buy recycled Whole Foods bags and replace...

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My Landmark Experience

Posted June 5, 2008 | 04:07 PM (EST)


My Landmark experience begins the day a trusted friend recounts his weekend Landmark getaway. Quietly, I think to myself, "Poor kid. He has up and joined a cult."

I have heard the rumors - the strict bathroom policy, the no eating/ no drinking rule, the endless hours of...

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The Explorer's Club: Endangering Animals One Dinner At A Time

7 Comments | Posted March 20, 2008 | 02:36 PM (EST)


This past Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the Explorer's Club dinner at the Waldorf Astoria. This year's theme "Exploring the Ocean" honored those underwater filmmakers, photographers, writers, oceanographers, biologists, and environmentalists that have changed our perspective of the undersea world. The evening's particular emphasis was the rapid...

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