Alyssa Polk has worked in all capacities of film for more than fifteen years. Her credits include major studio productions as well as countless independent features, shorts and music videos. Her films with collaborator Xia Magnus have shown at film festivals worldwide including their most recent short film Hunter which premiered at the Austin Film Festival. Her 2018 feature debut SANZARU was selected for both the IFP narrative film lab and US in progress film market and is set for release in 2019. Having spent the last three years producing film projects throughout the US, while also studying film and art at Yale University, she recently returned to her hometown of Los Angeles to concentrate on her development/production company Oneonetwosix Films. As a queer woman, Alyssa’s focus has always been to produce films about lives historically underrepresented in cinema.