Alyssa Fedele
Director / Producer
Alyssa Fedele is an Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She directed and edited The Rescue List, winner of the 2021 Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary, Best Documentary at Bend Film Festival, the Social Impact Award at Heartland International Film Festival, and the James Blue Award at Ashland Independent Film Festival. The Rescue List broadcast on PBS’s series POV and ARTE in Europe. The film was supported by SFFILM’s Documentary Film Fund and The Pacific Pioneer Foundation.
Alyssa edited Make a Splash, an ESPN documentary directed by Bonni Cohen and produced by Actual Films for the Fifty/50 Shorts series. Alyssa produced and edited Steve James’ short documentary film, The Ride of Their Lives, for Amazon’s documentary series, The New Yorker Presents. It premiered at Sundance and screened at IDFA. Alyssa has an MA in visual anthropology from the University of Manchester. Her background in ethnographic filmmaking gives her a unique skill-set to connect with subjects and build cross-cultural understanding in her films.