Alyson Spery, principle director/producer

Since learning how to use a camera herself, Alyson started teaching others: Swahili speakers, Spanish speakers, English speakers, children to adults. In 2019, she founded DIY Docs, a non-profit to teach filmmaking and began offering filmmaking courses to people living in Jackson Hole who had ties to Tlaxcala, Mexico for The Sister Cities Docuseries. In 2020, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to continue the project in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico where she lived and taught for almost a year. Additional projects include directing a series of educational videos on backcountry wilderness skills for a Spanish speaking audience, documenting an inclusive drag theater company and its allies in rural Wyoming, and an upcoming project on access to women’s health care in the New West. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual and Media Arts at the University of Montana and a bachelors of arts in public policy from William Smith College. She resides in Jackson, Wyoming working in film and dreaming in Spanish.