Ali Moss is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker with almost 20 years of experience telling true stories about other people’s lives—who has also turned the metaphorical lens on herself. She is currently writing an essay collection about raising a trans kid in Trump’s America and co-directing a film about one library’s secretly radical mission to mend the holes in our social safety net and make opportunity accessible to all.
Ali’s Emmy-nominated feature film, NO ACCIDENT (HBO/MAX), premiered in October 2023. Other recent documentaries include the Oscar-nominated THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK (The New Yorker 2024), FAUCI (Disney+/Telluride 2021), YUSUF HAWKINS: STORM OVER BROOKLYN (HBO/Tribeca 2020), and the Emmy-nominated feature NOT DONE: WOMEN REMAKING AMERICA (PBS 2020). She is honored to have been a 2020 Impact Partners Producing Fellow and to have been named to DOCNYC’s 2021 list of 40 Under 40. Her writing about her family has been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, HuffPost, Buzzfeed, Business Insider, Kveller, and more.
Over the years, Ali has worked at HBO and Discovery, co-founded a non-profit media company, and written the first English-language guidebook to Hangzhou, China. She’s also served as president of the board of her local library, among other volunteer efforts in her community.
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