Allison Walsh

Allison Walsh (they/she) is an independent documentary filmmaker and fine artist whose work explores identity, culture, and spirituality in the rural Midwest. A 2025 PBS Ignite Fellow, their debut feature documentary, All of the Above, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and is currently screening on the festival circuit. It received the Emerging Documentary Award at the Milwaukee Film Festival and has been featured on Deadline. The project is produced in association with Kartemquin Films.

Allison will begin an MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University in fall 2026 and is an Interfaith America Innovation Fellow, where they are developing educational resources connected to All of the Above for classrooms nationwide.

They are the founder and director of the Big Picture Peoria Film Festival , grounded in a belief in film as a shared, communal experience. Allison has also worked as a cinematographer and producer on documentaries for ESPN+, Discovery+, and Magnolia Network, and contributed to City So Real by Steve James.

Based in Peoria, Illinois, Walsh founded Aluma Media to mentor emerging Midwestern filmmakers and holds a BFA from Bradley University.