Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American filmmaker and investigative journalist. She has reported for PRI, BBC, AlJazeera, VICE and CNN and among others. Her debut short film about Hijabi hair salons for the HBO documentary film series LENNY, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Her award-winning feature-length directorial debut, THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED a documentary investigating a decade of FBI surveillance in Assia's Muslim-American community, had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and received the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at the 2018 BlackStar Film Festival and Camden International Film Festival. Assia was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 2018 "25 New Faces of Independent Film" and her work has been the recipient of support from the Ford Foundation JustFilms, International Documentary Association, San Francisco Film Society, Impact Partners and Firelight Media among others. Assia is a New America National Fellow and a fellow with the Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab (2018), where she is iterating the machine-learning fueled sequel to her film: the Inverse Surveillance Project. She has an M.A. in journalism from New York University and a B.A. in Political Science and Islamic World Studies from DePaul University. She is an Algiers born, Arabic speaking, Chicago-native, currently based in Los Angeles. - IMDb Mini Biography By: ASSIA BOUNDAOUI
