biography

Diana Păroiu has produced several films such as Ștefan Constantinescu’s MAN AND DOG (Goteborg 2022) and Mona Nicoară & Dana Bunescu’s THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ME AND ME (Romanian Gopo for Best Documentary 2020), alongside producer Ada Solomon, before starting producing with her own production outfit Visual Walkabout in 2021. Her current slate includes features, series and shorts. Diana is Honorary Vice President of the One World Romania Association, which organises the One World Romania International Documentary & Human Rights Festival and year-long educational and alternative distribution projects promoting human rights documentaries. Diana is an alumna of EAVE Producers Workshop, EAVE Ties That Bind, Rotterdam Producers Lab and currently has two original productions in Torino Series Lab 2022.

company profile

Visual Walkabout is a Bucharest-based outfit, run by Diana Păroiu, working on series, features and shorts. Currently in development are high-end TV series concepts by Romanian writer-director Paul Cioran and Romanian Berlin-based playwright and screenwriter Peca Ștefan, as well as new film projects by Igor Cobileanski and Peca Ștefan, among others. Visual Walkabout has previously worked on several projects as associate producer, including Ștefan Costantinescu’s feature MAN AND DOG (Goteborg 2021) and Vlad Petri’s hybrid docu-fiction-experimental short film THE SAME DREAM (Special Jury Mention - Sarajevo 2021). As of 2021, at Visual Walkabout we are focusing on developing original content as a lead production company.