A Conversation About Film, Comedy, Tiddies and Pens w/ Victoria Diana

<p>Victoria Diana is a stand-up comedian, a writer, and a filmmaker in Upstate NY. In 2020 she won a $40,000 grant from the Central New York Short Film Competition, an arts-funded initiative by Empire State Development and sponsored by the CNY Arts/Innovation Group. She used that money to fund her short film called "Devour".</p> <p>According to the article on <a href="https://www.oswego.edu/news/story/3-oswego-alumni-win-cny-short-film-competition-grand-prizes">oswego.edu</a>:<br> <em>[Victoria] Diana’s “Devour” is a drama following former lovers on different trajectories in ia chef who is about to close for the night at his struggling, once successful, restaurant, when an old flame shows up at his door,' Diana said. 'She is now a rising actress, who traveled up to Syracuse from NYC, in search of a familiar comfort.' Two of her friends, Kristin Noriega and Kevin Miner, presented Diana with the concept and which she immediately found exciting. “I love food, and the relationships people have with it. I also wanted to explore nostalgia, and the rose-colored tint it gives our memories,” Diana said. “For ‘Devour,’ I challenged myself by writing a drama (my comfort zone is comedy); but for fun, I went dialogue-crazy.”</em></p> <p>Find Victoria doing bits on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@_victoriadiana">Tik Tok</a>, reposting them on <a href="_victoriadiana">Instagram</a>, and shit-posting on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/victoria.n.diana">Facebook</a>.</p>