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Loi Ameera Almeron

Loi Ameera Almeron

Asian / Filipina

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Documentary Producers Alliance Brown Girls Doc Mafia A-Doc Investigative Reporters & Editors

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http://documentaries.org/films/system-disrupted/

http://documentaries.org/films/becoming-us/

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https://www.loialmeron.com

Bio

Loi Ameera Almeron is a versatile documentary producer and post supervisor who is the 2024 Elevate Award winner from the Berkeley Film Foundation and Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. She currently produced “Fractured” (PBS Frontline), "For Our Children" (Netflix/Array), "Baseball Behind Barbed Wire" (PBS), and Diamond Diplomacy (NEH; premiering Fall 2025). She helped produce “Stephen Curry: Underrated” (AppleTV; FOCAL Nominee) and “And So It Begins” (PBS Independent Lens) that both world premiered at Sundance Film Festival. She also edited "Hale" which won the Student Academy Award for Documentary 2017, and "Making The Five Heartbeats," a 2019 NAACP Image Awards nominee for Outstanding Documentary.

With her deep roots in Philippine investigative journalism combined with her deeper love of organization, Loi is a natural all-around expert in research, story development, FOI and public records, production and media management, archival, editing, and post supervising. Her work focuses on investigative, historical, and personal documentaries on civil and disability rights, immigration and race, and science and society.

Loi holds her Master of Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, A-Doc, and Investigative Reporters and Editors. She is a panelist for the National Freedom of Information Coalition and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Her films are available on PBS Frontline, Netflix, AppleTV, Prime Video, HBO, The Criterion Channel, iTunes, National Endowment for the Arts, and Good Docs. Her films are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Firelight Media, Berkeley Film Foundation, Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, Ohio Humanities, and more.

She is currently based in New York City.

Projects

System Disrupted

Plagued by daily seizures for three years, a young Lebanese American radio journalist quits her job and embarks on a desperate cross-country journey, seeking treatment and hope in various medical facilities. As she battles her enigmatic Functional Neurological Disease, her encounters with clinicians and fellow patients reveal honest realities of available treatments and pressing healthcare concerns.

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Becoming Us

Five donor-conceived siblings, their mothers, and their newfound biological father unite through a DNA test, forging a path to redefine family. Together, they recreate childhood memories on home videos to heal emotional wounds, and embrace their Filipino-American heritage, reconnect with ancestral roots and reshape their shared identity.

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Diamond Diplomacy

Differing politics, economics, class and race can play together in sports. Baseball has been common ground for the U.S. and Japan for 150+ years. Diamond Diplomacy shows how the iconic pastime endures war and racism, bridging two nations.

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