Beth Aala Filmmaker

Beth is a Filipina-American documentary filmmaker. She has won three Emmy awards and a Peabody Award for her documentary work at HBO. Beth recently directed and produced Uncharted with Alicia Keys and her organization, She is the Music that premiered at Tribeca Festival in June 2023. She also directed and produced This Is Brighton that premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival in October 2023. Other directing credits include News and Doc Emmy nominated Made In Boise (AFI Docs 2019); Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon (Tiff 2013); as well as Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (Sundance 2017).
Beth is member of A-DOC, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Filipinx Filmmakers, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and is a Wyncote Fellow. She has been supported by ITVS, Chicken and Egg, NYSCA, WMM, was a Creative Capital and Firelight Media grant finalist. Beth’s work has been featured on HBO, PBS, MTV, Discovery and A&E.