Alex pelly is an emmy-nominated film and video editor based in Los Angeles with extensive experience in music content, documentary and branded video.

After graduating from the University of Southern California’s Cinematic Arts program, Alex cut her teeth editing and directing music videos at a boutique production company founded by Heath Ledger and Matt Amato, called The Masses. She co-editing Amato’s first feature film, Never My Love , a narrative starring Twin Peak’s Sheryl Lee and Grace Zabriskie as well as Mad Men’s Jay R. Ferguson. 

Concurrently she also worked as an Assistant Editor for Tremolo Productions, working on music documentaries such as Peal Jam Twenty, Search and Destroy: Iggy & The Stooges' Raw Power, Ray Charles America and Troubadours.

Her next incarnation was with BuzzFeed’s Branded Video, an in-house advertising agency, where she served as Editor and Supervising Editor from 2014-2017. She edited an abundance of Branded Content both scripted and unscripted for a range of clients including Amazon, Purina, Nestlé, Citi Bank and Gap.

Alex then returned to her roots in music content, working on artist profiles and performance videos for Spotify’s in-app video content as a permalance editor from 2017-2021.

Increasing her freelance work during the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Alex cut content for a variety of clients, including PBS’s KCET, for whom she co-edited an episode of the arts and culture series Artbound in 2021. The episode, titled “Imagined Wests”, is about the Autry Museum of the American West and its attempts to recontextualize a controversial mural, dating from the Disney Imagineers-designed museum’s opening in the the 1980s. Artbound has won several Emmys and “Imagined Wests” was nominated for an Emmy.

In 2023 Alex delved deep into her second feature, a documentary called Flamingo Camp, directed by Chris Coats. Flamingo Camp is set in a near-lawless squatter town known as Slab City, where a group of young queer and trans people create a thriving safe space called Flamingo Camp. However, an unthinkable tragedy strikes when a young trans member of the camp is brutally murdered and the film follows his campmates as they struggle to come to terms with loss and rebuild a failed utopia. She continued to work on this film intermittently in 2024, and is excited to see its premiere at Big Sky Festival in February 2025, where it’s in competition for Best Feature.

From 2024 to present she has continued to freelance, mainly cutting for Live Nation and Healthline.