Diana Maria Olsson

Diana Maria Olsson was born on July 6, 1983, in Lithuania and grew up with her exile grandfather. Diana has double master's and double bachelor's degrees - in directing, journalism, public relations, and visual culture. She held her degrees at Vilnius University of Lithuania and Lund University of Sweden. She has also studied a civilization course at Sorbonne University. During her studies, she was also working with television documentaries such as "Vilnius - European Capital of Culture 2009", "Attitude", "The Portraits of time" in Lithuanian National Television (LRT), documentaries are found now in the Golden Archive of LRT. She was also politically active and was working at the Lithuanian Parliament. In 2011 Diana created a television broadcast pilot about the cinema world: "On the red carpet" where she was interviewing Marina Tarkovskaja among others. The broadcast was confirmed, but she moved to Sweden, because of family reasons. In 2019 she made a Swedish music documentary: "Flickan Flaskan och Fostelandet" (The Girl, The Bottle and The Motherland"), which was fully funded by Swedish National Television (SVT). She is a founder of a film production company "Zen Division" (2018, Sweden), and the president of the organization "Child and Family in Focus" (2021, Sweden). She speaks Lithuanian, English, Swedish, Russian, German and French. Diana has a burning interest in sports and health, and she has worked as a yoga teacher for several years.