Alyssa Loh
Alyssa Loh is a filmmaker and writer based in New York. She was a 2021 Sundance Lab Fellow and Sundance | Alfred P. Sloan Development Fellow. She holds a joint MBA/MFA from NYU, where she was a winner of the 2022 Purple List, and the recipient of the Martin E. Segal Production Award, Roger King Finishing Award, Riese Production Award, Faculty Commendation in Filmmaking, and Screenwriting Craft Award. Her essays on technology, surveillance, and visual culture have appeared in Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The American Reader, and she sits on the Editorial Board of the history journal Lapham’s Quarterly. In 2021, she co-created the experimental film series Twelve Theses on Attention for the Glasgow Biennial. The book version (text & film stills) was published by Princeton University Press in 2022. Her first short film, Other Bodies, premiered at Fantasia (Winner, Best Actor); she is currently in post-production on her next short film starring Sonoya Mizuno. Her first feature screenplay was selected for the 2023 Wscripted Cannes Screenplay List and TIFF’s 2023 Breakthroughs program. She has a BA from Princeton in English and creative writing, where she won the Ward Mathis Prize for best short story.