Allison Otto is an Emmy-winning American documentary film director. She is best known for her work on The Thief Collector, The Love Bugs, and Keeper of the Mountains.

Career

Allison Otto graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor's degree in Communications and a Master's degree in Sociology. Her first feature film, The Thief Collector, premiered in the Documentary Feature Competition at the 2022 South by Southwest film festival. The film was nominated in 2023 for a Critics Choice Documentary Award for Best First Documentary Feature and for Best True Crime Documentary.

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In 2019, Allison released The Love Bugs, which she co-directed with Maria Clinton. The film won an Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary in 2021. The Love Bugs won awards at 14 film festivals and was featured on POV Shorts Season 3. It was shortlisted by the International Documentary Association for the 2019 Best Documentary Short award and was selected as part of the American Film Showcase (also known as the American Film Program). She is also a two-time recipient of the Mountainfilm Commitment Grant and the recipient of the SFFILM Catapult Film Fellowship in 2019.

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Filmography

Awards and nominations

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Living people

American documentary film directors

American documentary film producers

Year of birth missing (living people)

Allison Otto