Rockville Centre's Diane Masciale Hosts & Executive Produces New Long Island Focused Series

Longtime Rockville Centre resident Diane Masciale is the host and executive producer of a new monthly WLIW21 series called Long Island Screening Room.  The first episode of the series, which premiered on Thursday, will encore on Sunday, September 29 from 5:30-6:30pm on WLIW21.

Long Island Screening Room spotlights the work of professional and student filmmakers who work or study on Long Island, or who focus their camera on what makes up the fabric of the Long Island community.  The program will feature all film genres to illustrate themes that are important, poignant and under-discovered in the community, presented through the art of filmmaking.  The series will also examine the film culture on Long Island. 

Diane is a Long Island native.  She grew up in Lynbrook and currently resides in Rockville Centre, where she has raised her family. She is an award-winning producer, who has been working in media for over 20 years, and has served as a senior level executive for ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “20/20,” NBC’s “Today Show” and “Dateline NBC”, CNN, FOX, PBS and AOL.  As Executive Producer of Local Programming at WLIW21, Diane often places the spotlight on Long Island and produces programming that aims to educate, inform and inspire the community.