About Alley

Since graduating with a B.S. degree in Radio/Television/Film and Sociology, which integrated her love of film and interest in social issues, Alison (or Alley as she’s more commonly known) has been working as a freelance producer. Currently, she is a Producer of public purpose media, written, video, and audio for One Economy, and specifically the websites PIC.tv (Public Internet Channel) and TheBeehive.org.

As the Associate Producer at Smush Media, she produced the feature-length documentary Mine, which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at both the 2009 South By Southwest Film Festival and the 2009 San Francisco Documentary Festival. Mine had its broadcast premiere on PBS’ Independent Lens in February 2010 and was voted the Independent Lens audience favorite as well.

While with Smush Media, she also assisted with the production of Motherland, another SXSW 2009 winner. Additionally,  Alison associate produced the documentary Corner Store, which had a preview screening at the 2010 San Francisco Indie Film Festival, premiered at the Denver Film Festival in October 2010, and was broadcast on KQED.

In 2007, she received a U.S. Fulbright Research Grant to produce a short documentary in Hong Kong. She has assisted on projects for the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel, and was the Associate Producer on the feature documentary Seeking Asian Female, as well as on various freelance projects. Alison also strengthened her social media and online marketing/PR skills at Mubi.com (which wasTheAuteurs.com then), a video-on-demand and social recommendation site for film-lovers, where she was a Project Manager.

Based in Portland, Alison spends her free time running, reading, writing, meditating, dancing, watching movies, record-shopping, going to see live music and enjoying the people in her life.