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The 32nd Annual Woods Hole Film Festival

2023 Filmmaker in Residence

The Woods Hole Film Festival is proud to present Allison Otto, the 2023 Filmmaker in Residence

Allison Otto Allison’s documentary short, (2019), was awarded Best Short Docu-
mentary in the 42nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards after
Allison Otto is an Emmy-winning screening on POV Shorts Season 3 (2020). The film was also shortlisted
documentary filmmaker, cinema- for a 2019 International Documentary Association Award and was long
tographer, and visual journalist. listed for an Oscar in the Documentary Short category. Allison is also a
Her first feature documentary, 2019 recipient of the SFFILM Catapult Film Fellowship, a 2018 and 2011
The Thief Collector, premiered at Telluride Mountainfilm Commitment grant recipient, and a 2018 Roy W.
SXSW 2022. Subsequent screenings Dean grant winner.
included the Palm Springs Interna- Her clients have included National Geographic, BBC America, NBC, the
tional Film Festival, Hot Docs, the Sierra Club, Travel Channel, Atlas Obscura, and Lonely Planet. Allison’s
SFFILM festival, the Woods Hole exclusive story of the discovery of a new invertebrate species was
Film Festival, and Telluride Moun- selected by National Geographic as one of their “Ten Best First-of-their-
tainfilm. Variety magazine hailed The Kind” stories of 2016.
Thief Collector as “a nimble and en-
tertaining dissection of a crime” and Allison’s films have won Audience Choice and Jury Awards at film festi-
a film “that builds to a supreme mo- vals around the world. Her first film, Keeper of the Mountains, screened
ment of ‘Oh. My. God.’” The Thief Collector is streaming as an Amazon more than 500 times in 32 countries, including a screening at McMurdo
Original in the UK and began streaming on Amazon and iTunes in the Station in Antarctica.
US in May 2023. The film ranked as one of the most popular documen- Allison graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in
taries on iTunes in its first weekend on the streaming platform. Communications and a master’s degree in Sociology.

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