Biography

Alyssa Katalyna is a Latina filmmaker who produces emotionally intoxicating genre projects for film and television. Alyssa's work has been awarded several accolades for both producing and directing. Most recently she produced "Spear. Spatula. Submarine." which won the American Pavilion's Best Emerging Filmmaker Documentary at Cannes 2024. Her other projects she has produced have also been the recipients of multiple grants and accolades including the Jury Award at the 28th DGA Student Film Awards, Epic Unreal Mega Grant, The Project Paradise Fund.

As a director, her podcast Jack and Lou: A Gangster Love Story starring Lisa Kudrow was a winner of the 2022 Best Audio Fiction Series and Best Ensemble of an Audio Fiction at the Indie Series Awards. Alyssa has also been awarded the prestigious George Lucas Scholarship at USC, was a 2022 NALIP Emerging Content Creators Inclusion Initiative Scholarship winner, multiyear National Hispanic Foundation of the Arts Scholar, and a finalist for Paxeros' Inaugural Women of Color Commercial Directing Program. She is an active member of NALIP and the Chicana Director's Initiative.

Alyssa can be found in all stages of production on a multitude of projects in both film and television. While she continues to push the narrative boundaries through action and virtual production, she is simultaneously releasing shorts in the festival circuit and loving every moment of it. When she isn't directing, writing, or producing, Alyssa can be found exploring the wilderness, rock climbing, or catching up on the latest horror series.

- IMDb mini biography by: Alyssa fritz