Diana Ringo

Diana Ringo
Ringo in 2017
Born (1992-03-08) March 8, 1992 (age 32)
NationalityFinnish
Occupations
  • Film director
  • producer
  • screenwriter
  • composer
  • musician
  • visual artist
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
Websitedianaringo.com

Diana Ringo (born 8 March 1992) is a Finnish film director, composer and visual artist. She is best known for the films Quarantine (2021) and 1984 (2023).[1][2][3]

Biography

Diana was born in the family of Finnish researcher Reijo Mononen and Russian-Finnish artist Elena Ringo. Her great-grandfathers are inventor Josef Ringo[4] and mathematician Sergey Nikolsky.[5]

Her director debut is dystopian feature film drama Quarantine (2021)[6] which was shortlisted for the 2022 Golden Globes as a foreign entry.[7][8] She was also composer of the film and for the film's score she wrote 26 original tracks.

In November 2022 it was announced that her feature film based on George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four would be released in 2023.[9][10][11] Her film 1984 was released on 15 November 2023.

Diana Ringo's directorial style has been compared to the works of Andrei Tarkovsky, Terence Malick and Aleksandr Sokurov.[12]

Her music for the film Million Loves in Me by Sampson Yuen won the award for the Best Original Score at the LAFA Awards in 2020.[13] She also composed the score for the Santa Monica College short film Hinge by Lisa Mayo in 2019.

Diana grew up in Helsinki and was interested in music since early childhood. At the age of five, pianist Dmitry Soloviev, discovered that Diana has perfect pitch. She started to study piano and Soloviev became her first music teacher.[1][14]

She studied piano with famous pianists such as Janne Mertanen, Risto Lauriala. She has attended master classes by the Hollywood composer Lalo Schifrin, directors Paul Verhoeven and David Lynch.

Diana Ringo is a classically educated pianist. Her original compositions combine classical and romantic influences with modern electronics and synthesizers. Her favorite classical composers are Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. Film score composers whose works have influenced Diana Ringo include Ennio Morricone, Dmitri Shostakovich, Michel Legrand, Giorgio Moroder and Lalo Schifrin.[1][4][15]

In 2020 Diana Ringo was the first Finnish woman to pose in the Playboy Spain magazine.[16][17][18]

As a visual artist and painter, Diana works with oil, gouache, digital techniques, collage and mixed media.[3][19]

Filmography

Film director

Composer

Awards

  • Best Score - Hinge (Vienna Independent Film Festival 2019)[20]
  • Best Score - Million Loves in Me (Los Angeles Film Awards 2020)[13]
  • Best Score - Million Loves in Me (WICA Los Angeles 2021)[21]
  • Best Visual Effects or Design - Quarantine (ES Europe International Film Festival 2021)[22]
  • Best Overall Film, Best Director, and Best Editing - 1984 (WorldFilmGeek Awards 2024)[23]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Diana Ringo about Scoring for Film - "The soundtrack is the soul of a movie."". 15 Questions. 23 June 2022. Archived from the original on 23 June 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ "Диана Ринго". VokrugTV (in Russian).
  3. ^ a b María Fernanda Torres (23 September 2022). "To Create Is to Live: An Interview with Mixed-Media Artist Diana Ringo". ArtsHelp.
  4. ^ a b Günther Kramer (3 June 2021). "Interview with "Quarantine" director Diana Ringo". Indie Cinema Magazine.
  5. ^ "Biography". elena-ringo.com.
  6. ^ "KARAntin". KAVI. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  7. ^ "Golden Globes 2022 Non-English Language Film Submissions". Golden Globes.
  8. ^ "Finnish films compete for the 2022 Golden Globe awards". Helsinki Times. 6 December 2021.
  9. ^ Linar Gimashev (22 November 2022). "Вышел трейлер фильма «1984» по роману Джорджа Оруэлла" [The trailer of "1984" based on George Orwell's novel has been released]. Plugged In.
  10. ^ Yulia Danilchenko (5 December 2022). "Волгоградец Александр Обманов сыграл главную роль в экранизации «1984» Оруэлла" [Aleksandr Obmanov from Volgograd played the lead role in the film adaptation of Orwell's "1984"]. Komsomolskaya Pravda.
  11. ^ ""Quarantine": An Exclusive Interview with Diana Ringo". WorldFilmGeek. 19 June 2023.
  12. ^ "KARAntin - page 13" (PDF). Ravno Selo Film Festival 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-06-03.
  13. ^ a b "LAFA WINNERS - February 2020". LAFA.
  14. ^ "Biography". dianaringo.com.
  15. ^ "Interview with Diana Ringo". Lazie Indie Magazine. No. 13. 27 May 2021.
  16. ^ "Playboy España". Playboy (No 21, April ed.). 2020.
  17. ^ Anna-Maija Lippu (12 August 2022). "Playmate Suomesta" [Playmate from Finland]. Iltalehti.
  18. ^ "Diana Ringo Celebrity Biography". WonderClub.
  19. ^ Maria Elutina. "История Поп-Арта. XXI век" [History of Pop Art. XXI century]. HSE University.
  20. ^ "VIFF 2019 Winners". Vienna Independent Film Festival. Archived from the original on 11 June 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  21. ^ "WICA LA Awards Winners 2021". WICA Los Angeles.
  22. ^ "Winners 2021". ES Europe IFF. Archived from the original on 23 December 2021.
  23. ^ "2024 WorldFilmGeek Awards Recap: '1984', 'Life After Fighting', 'Terrifier 3' Among Winners". WorldFilmGeek.
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