Allison (Sunny) Dean
Documentary and Experimental Filmmaker
Allison ‘Sunny’ Dean (b. 2000) is a documentary film and media artist from Tucson, Arizona. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Film and Digital Media program, they relocated to San Francisco to be more centralized in their work surrounding film as a form of advocacy. Allison’s work focuses on the narratives of unintended community spaces and landscapes, and the portraits of the people within them. Their mediums and methods include experimental film, documentary/non-narrative, analog 16mm, audiovisual media, text and spoken word, law and justice, queer centered stories, and social aid. They are currently pursuing an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Notable Work
Assistant Editor for Richland, 2023 dir. Irene Lusztig
Porter College Research Fellow and Foley-Mendelssohn Recipient
Campaign Chair for the Free Tim Young Campaign, a movement dedicated to the exoneration of Tim Young, a man wrongfully convicted serving on California’s death row.