What was your first experience on a film set? Her film, Art & Krimes by Krimes, is part of BIFF 2022 Alysa is a founding member of FWD-Doc as an ally who is committed to advocating for disability rights and inclusion, and she is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She holds degrees from New York University and Princeton University. She was the co-author of a Sundance Creative Distribution Case Study on Unrest. She is a 2020 Film Independent Fellow and a 2019 Sundance Institute Momentum Fellow.
Her producing credits also include the scripted feature NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE, directed by Amber Sealey with executive producer Miranda July (Jury Award winner, LA Film Festival 2016), and the documentaries A DECENT HOME, directed by Sara Terry (DOC NYC 2021) WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED, directed by Mariam Ghani (Berlinale, SFFILM 2019) distributed by Dekanalog and Criterion I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE, directed by Reid Davenport (Sundance 2022) WEED & WINE (Hot Docs 2020), directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen and American Masters’ AFTERNOON OF A FAUN directed by Nancy Buirski with creative advisor Martin Scorsese (NY Film Festival, Berlinale 2013).Īlysa has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine as an independent film innovator.
She directed and produced the feature documentaries ART & KRIMES BY KRIMES (2021) featuring artist Jesse Krimes and distributed by MTV Documentary Films, THE NEW BAUHAUS (2019) about visionary artist László Moholy-Nagy, and UNFINISHED SPACES (2011, co-directed with Benjamin Murray) about the Cuban National Art Schools, which won a 2012 Independent Spirit Award, was distributed by PBS and Netflix, and is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Īs a producer, her work includes the forthcoming UNTITLED WILDCAT DOCUMENTARY directed by Melissa Lesh and Trevor Frost for Amazon Studios, and the Emmy-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted UNREST directed by Jennifer Brea, which won an a Jury Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by Netflix and PBS Independent Lens. Producer Lindsey Dryden will introduce the screening and will be joined by Pervasive Media Studio Managing Producer Verity McIntosh for a Q&A.įind out more about Unrest VR - a Virtual Reality expansion piece to Jennifer Brea’s feature documentary of the same name also happening on Sun 22 Oct.Alysa Nahmias is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of AJNA.
When told by doctors it was “all in her head,” her response was to start filming from her bed, gradually collaborating with film crews in the UK and around the globe to shed light on the world inhabited by millions of patients that medicine forgot. Opening with grainy camera footage as Brea pulls her limp body onto her bed, the film charts both her personal struggle with the disease and its complicated and misunderstood history.ĭirector Jennifer Brea was a journalist and academic studying for a PhD at Harvard when, months before her wedding, she became progressively ill, losing the ability to even sit in a wheelchair.
Jennifer Brea’s Unrest is an unflinching first person documentary about ME-CFS (myalgic encephalopathy or chronic fatigue syndrome) and the devastating effects it wrecks on the human body.
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