Neil Diamond hails from the Cree community of Waskaganish, on the coast of James Bay. He directed the award-winning Reel Injun, One More River, Cree Spoken Here, and Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster in Northern Quebec. He is also an award-winning photographer and co-founder of The Nation, the first news magazine to serve the Cree of northern Quebec and Ontario.

An integral part of the Rezolution Pictures International creative team, his recent credits include The Last Explorer and Dab Iyiyuu.