Talent Guide

Alissa Torvinen 

  • Discipline:Writer/Director
  • Program Year:Grants and Awards 2026, Screenwriting Lab 2026

Bio

Alissa “TORV” Torvinen is a director known for bold, stylized visuals and performance-driven storytelling. Her projects span music, commercial and narrative.

Her work has screened internationally, gone viral online and streamed globally across major platforms. She has collaborated with actors and artists including Phoebe Bridgers, P!nk, Black Eyed Peas, Liev Schreiber and Zooey Deschanel, and directed national broadcast and digital campaigns for brands such as Johnson&Johnson, HP and Spectrum.

In 2019, she co-directed a feature-length musical with popstar Melanie Martinez that holds a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score. Her Phoebe Bridgers video was named IndieWire’s “Best Video of the Year.”

Current Project

Extinction of the Badger Duck

Logline

Extinction of the Badger Duck follows the rediscovery of a mythic bird and the viral mania it inspires.