About
Ali Scattergood is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer. She is the Co-director, Co-writer and Editor of the Feature Documentary film Healing Waters about renowned photographer Linda Troeller, which premiered on AppleTV and Amazon Video in the fall of 2024. The previous year, Healing Waters took home the Audience Choice Award for best film in the Albuquerque Film and Music Festival, and has won awards at other festivals in the US and around the world. Her 2022 short documentary Climate Diaries: Heathers Story shares the personal story of a professional geoduck diver in the Suquamish tribe and her perspective of the effect of climate change on the Salish Sea. The film won Best Documentary Short, Best Female Director, and Best Cinematography in several film festivals across the USA and Europe. Climate Diaries: Heather’s Story was one of five short documentaries selected for the Bloomberg Green Climate Film Festival in July 2024, and aired on Alaska Airlines as part of their In Flight Entertainment in December 2024.
In 2018, Ali launched her own boutique production company Oak Light Films (www.oaklightfilms.com) which specializes in non-fiction storytelling for clients in the entertainment, education and impact media sectors.
With experience in both post-production and production, Ali has worked with respected filmmakers and TV production companies around the country. For 5 years, she worked with Ken Burns and the team at Florentine Films, working specifically on The Mayo Clinic: Faith, Hope, Science; Emmy Nominated series The Story of Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies; The Biography of Jackie Robinson; The Address; and Emmy Nominated miniseries The Vietnam War. She has worked on projects for Netflix, Disney, A&E Networks, Hulu, Nat Geo Wild, and Warner Brothers Discovery.
Ali’s photography work, both fine art and documentary, has been exhibited in shows and publications across the United States and Europe. She has been fortunate enough to photograph (in a private audience with) public figures including His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, musician Wynton Marsalis, Filmmaker Ken Burns, Author and Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee, and the Martha Graham Dance Company in New York City. In 2019 she worked as a photojournalist documenting the Pan-American Games in Lima, Peru. In Spring 2023, her solo show Liminal Moments opened in Pioneer Square, Seattle, showcasing a series of her latest fine art photography focused on the interactive boundaries between the spaces we inhabit and the fluidity of human memory.
Ali also works with clients in the nonprofit, educational, and corporate spaces. In 2021, she Produced and Directed a web series for the Washington Department of Health, part of a larger campaign on Covid-19 vaccine awareness which aired on prime time television during the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Ali is currently based in Seattle, WA. She enjoys working in all areas of film production, and is available for video and photography projects globally. An alumnus of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Program, she regularly speaks on panels regarding filmmaking. Ali currently serves on the board for the Seattle Documentary Association.