ABOUT US
Collective Hunch is a dynamic team of award-winning digital storytellers with backgrounds in documentary filmmaking, cultural anthropology, psychology, art, design and marketing.
We specialize in crafting visually stunning and engaging stories about real people doing amazing things. We produce documentary content for television and film, as well as mini documentary content that connects brands, businesses and non-profits to their customers and communities.
National Geographic
MTV
Spike TV
PBS
The Hewlett Foundation
Edutopia
Spyder
SunLink
Imatest
IPAM
Aliança da Terra
Milkhaus
Alyssa Fedele - Producer & Co-Founder
Alyssa is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and cultural anthropologist who employs her curiosity about humanity as an intuitive guide for the filmmaking process. She holds a masters degree in visual anthropology from the Granada Center for Visual Anthropology. Bringing her keen eye and participant observational practices to her documentary projects, she strives to uncover the passion and commonality connecting all people.
Her film projects are both visually stunning representations of reality and emotionally potent documents of human universals. Drawing upon her background in anthropology, Alyssa’s ethnographic research and interactive skills allow her to tap into diverse cultures, from brand cultures to world cultures. Alyssa has brought her technical skills and creative thinking to independent film as well as television shows for National Geographic, HBO, SpikeTV, TLC, and A&E as well as many non-profits, brands and businesses. She is the Director of the award-winning documentary film, Family of the Wa’a, which is currently touring film festivals around the globe.
Zachary Fink - Producer & Co-Founder
Zachary came to documentary filmmaking from his roots in cultural anthropology. He is an award-winning Cinematographer and Producer whose work has been featured on National Geographic Television, HBO, MTV, PBS and in film festivals around the globe. He has directed projects for The Film Study Center at Harvard University and his clients include LG Electronics and Spyder Clothing.
Zachary holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Colorado, where he staked his ground as a filmmaker amongst anthropologists, and an MFA in film production from California Institute of the Arts, where he staked his ground as an anthropologist among filmmakers. Having struck a unique balance between the two, Zachary weaves tapestries of moving images and sounds that draw the subtleties of the human experience into new focus. The results are cinematically beautiful stories that help us deepen our understanding of the world we live in.
His cinematography has been featured on Sony’s Professional website, and won awards at film festivals. Zachary is currently the Director of Video Programming for the George Lucas Educational Foundation, Edutopia, where he tells stories about the most successful and innovative schools in America.