Alyssa Fedele is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She directed and edited The Rescue List, which 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 broadcast on PBS’s series POV and ARTE in Europe, and 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. She also produced and edited Steve James’ documentary film, The Ride of Their Lives, for Jigsaw and Amazon Studios’ documentary series, The New Yorker Presents. The film premiered at Sundance and screened at IDFA. With an MA in visual anthropology from the University of Manchester, Alyssa brings a background in ethnographic filmmaking, allowing her to build deep connections with subjects and foster cross-cultural understanding in her work.