Alyssa Katalyna
A child grave cleaner turned writer/director/producer, Alyssa Katalyna has haunted the streets of Los Angeles since her graduation from the USC’s School of Cinematic Arts with a MFA in Film & Television Production. A lover of mythology, maternal horror, and haunting nature, Alyssa is most at peace with a genre script in hand. In 2024, Alyssa was a Season Three Starz Writers’ Intensive Fellow and a Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today Fellow at the Hola Mexico Film Festival. In 2025, her scripts received finalist placements from the Humanitas Awards and Sundance Cultural Impact Residency. As a director, her podcast Jack and Lou: A Gangster Love Story, starring Lisa Kudrow, won Best Audio Fiction Series and Best Ensemble at the 2022 Indie Series Awards. Alyssa was also a 2022 NALIP Emerging Content Creator and multiyear National Hispanic Foundation of the Arts Scholar. The projects she has produced have been the recipients of multiple grants and accolades including the Rideback Rise Fellowship, winner of the American Pavilion's Best Emerging Filmmaker Documentary at Cannes 2024, Jury Award at the 28th DGA Student Film Awards, Epic Unreal Mega Grant, and several more. 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.
