Alyssa Fedele

Alyssa Fedele is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and anthropologist based in San Francisco. She co-directed and edited The Rescue List, an observational documentary film that follows two children who were trafficked into modern slavery on Lake Volta in Ghana. The Rescue List won 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 premiered on PBS's series POV in 2020. It was supported by SFFILM's Documentary Film Fund and the FilmHouse Residency Program, and screened at Full Frame, DOC NYC, and Telluride Mountain Film. Alyssa produced and edited Steve James' short documentary film, The Ride of Their Lives, for Amazon's documentary series, The New Yorker Presents. The film follows two children who ride bulls in youth rodeo competitions. It premiered at Sundance and screened at IDFA. Alyssa's work has appeared on National Geographic Channel, PBS, HBO, and ARTE. 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.