There are a lot of things you can do once you put your mind into it.  Diane Ventura can talk about that first-hand.

After her first short film "TheRapist" became one of the Top 3 Most Popular Films at the recently concluded International Film Festival Manhattan (IFFM) in New York, director Diane Ventura has revealed her next step: Stop. Look. Listen.

Manila, Philippines – PASSION – Ma. Diane C. Ventura is pretty enough to be in front of the camera, but she’d rather be behind it. Directing is her passion. And Diane prepared for that passion.

Diane Ventura has only just begun building up her resume as director but even so, she already knows that in order to predispose oneself to success, he has to do it right the first time.

THEY say you are not a filmmaker until you have screened your first film in front of a live audience.  And that she did.  Maria Diane Ventura, Manila-based Filipino filmmaker / producer / manager, presented her first short film “The Rapist” at the International Film Festival Manhattan (IFFM) in New York this week. An intense film on a suspected rapist and his psychiatrist.