Diza Edgina is a Javanese American-Canadian writer and filmmaker raised in the tropical archipelago of Hawai‘i. Her work is grounded in spirit folklore, ancestral mysticism, and diasporic Southeast Asian queer experiences.

Previously, she was a 2025 Film Independent x HV Arts Hub 10x10 Award winner, a 2024 Austin Film Festival semifinalist for her pilot “Out of the Blue,” and a 2022 MTV Joel Schumacher & Sophia Cranshaw Mentorship Award recipient.

You can also find Diza on Letterboxd, if you so please.

IN THE PRESS

“The Gotham EDU Film And Media Career Development Program Sets Scholarship Recipients”

“Dramat’s Theatremakers Series supports BIPOC”

“Hawaii playwrights to be featured in virtual PlayBuilders Festival in September”