About

Alicia Cattoni began filmmaking in high school where she attained top awards and first place in narrative writing and directing at the Ojai Youth Film Festival.

During her studies at Brooks Institute of Photography, Alicia earned the Sergio Aragonés Film Studies Scholarship.  She also worked for DreamWorks, SKG/Paramount Pictures, and with Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s Girls’ Club Entertainment, LLC, which is now “The Representation Project.”  In 2005 she graduated from Brooks with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film & Video Production.  As an academic honoree, she was additionally bestowed with the film department’s Achievement Award, their highest distinction.  She then made national commercials and worked for Al Gore’s Current TV, LLC, now known as Aljazeera America. Eventually working as a Production Coordinator for the 13-episode History Channel Series, “Boneyard: The Secret Lives of Machines,” for NBC Sports, and Speed Channel/Lucas Oil’s Championship Off Road Racing series nationwide.

Since then, Alicia traveled to Iran as a journalist with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb and in collaboration with the Fellowship of Reconciliation USA in New York. She has worked on various independent films and as the Ventura Family YMCA’s Marketing & Communication Director where she executive produced Annual Campaign videos for their 2015 and 2016 fundraising efforts. She has also created over 30 commercials for companies such as Facebook/Meta Platforms, Inc., AT&T, and W.W. Norton & Company. More recently working as a Creative Director with photographs in publications such as Food & Home Magazine, HGTV, The Landscape Library, and for Paul Hendershot Design, Inc.