Alison Sotomayor is a documentary filmmaker, producer, writer and researcher. She produced The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo (PBS, San Francisco Latino Film Festival & March on Washington Film Festival, 2018) and Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race (PBS, Los Angeles Film Festival & Pan African Film Festival, 2015). She also produced/directed Two Party Animals (2017), a political/comedy TV pilot with Pulitzer-Prize winning Los Angeles Times journalist Patt Morrison and comedians Ben Gleib & Alonzo Bodden. Previously, she worked at KCET-TV as a producer for the critically acclaimed news and public affairs series, Life & Times in Los Angeles for ten years. Sotomayor also produces short films on the contributions and accomplishments of Latino Americans for media advocacy and civil rights organizations nationwide. She has two Emmy Awards, five Golden Mikes, a Telly Award, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at UCLA.