Ali has been chosen to join the BlackMagic Filmmakers Collection and will participate in their Bridge the Gap initiative.
Founded with the belief that the art of filmmaking should be accessible to all, the Blackmagic Collective is designed to bring together filmmakers from all disciplines and experience levels to learn from, share with, and inspire each other. Through educational events and career advancement initiatives, they help underrepresented filmmakers grow their careers.
Ali is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened and won festivals, including Atlanta, Palm Springs, Toronto, Aspen Comedy, and Gen Art, to name a few. Her award-winning short film Media Whore won her a Method Fest Best Actress nomination, as well as development by Broadway Video.
Ali’s screenplays and pilots have won or placed at WeScreenplay Diverse Voices, Orchard Project, Chesterfield Writer’s Project, Los Angeles International Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival, Scriptapalooza, Screencraft, Script Lab, and Table Read My Screenplay, among others. Ali also works as a script consultant and judge for several of the Hollywood competitions.
Her screenwriting has garnered her recognition as a Coverfly-Endorsed Writer, Women In Film Mentorship, and fellowships from Writers For Writers, Stowe StoryLab, RespectAbility, and the 1in4 Writer’s Coalition. She has taken part in the Sundance Collective Kitchen, Green Light Women Writer’s Lab, and the Imagine Impact Network.
Some of her TV credits include: HBO’s Mr. Show, Showtime’s The Green Room, MTV2’s Celebrity Deathmatch, Jimmy Kimmel, POP TV’s Hollywood Darlings, Kathy Griffin’s So-Called Reality, VH-1’s Random Play (with Stephen Colbert), and Dirty Comedy with Tiffany Haddish. She sold the pilot Town Maul to MTV, and created, wrote, and starred in the LA Times endorsed web series Law of the Land for Syd Butler and David Cross’ FKR TV. The series was distributed by Snag Films. She also co-created and wrote the series Wags To Riches where she starred alongside Stephanie Courtney, Samm Levine, and a lot of demanding canines.
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