Diana Williams

Diana Williams

Lucasfilm

TED Attendee
California, United States
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About Diana

Bio

Diana Williams is a creative executive with the Lucasfilm Story Group, the team inside Lucasfilm tasked with developing narrative cohesion and connectivity within the Star Wars universe across all media platforms. She is also the development liaison to ILMxLAB, the laboratory for immersive entertainment that will combine compelling storytelling, technological innovation and world-class production that will reinvent the way stories are told and experienced. Prior to Lucasfilm, Diana was a founder of Roller Coaster Entertainment. She produced a long list of critically acclaimed films including the award –winning narrative feature Our Song, the documentary Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible and Another First Step, the webseries Awesome Asian Bad Guys, and consulted on the documentaries Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis for Starz Entertainment and Room 237. Diana also developed The Gatecrashers – a multi-media storyworld and comic book series created by Zach Mortensen, 5 Girls – a southern gothic horror feature film, and Chinafornia – an animated comedy webseries created by Ellie Lee.

I'm passionate about

Food, travel, STEM & STEAM, storytelling, creativity

An idea worth spreading

Always be willing to ask questions, experiment and be wrong.

Areas of expertise

film, storytelling, transmedia, virtual reality, VR, world-building

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