AJNA is an award-winning production company based in Los Angeles. We make nonfiction and scripted features as well as short-form and series, with a focus on ambitious and emotionally resonant storytelling.

AJNA releases have garnered numerous prizes, including Emmy Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, and Oscar Shortlists, and they have been exhibited at top film festivals and museums, including the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Berlinale, South by Southwest, Venice Biennale, LACMA, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Distribution partners worldwide have included Amazon Studios, Netflix, Paramount+, HBO, PBS, Dekanalog, and Criterion.

AJNA founder Alysa Nahmias directed and produced the Emmy-winning feature documentary Art & Krimes by Krimes; Unfinished Spaces; and The New Bauhaus. She also produced the Emmy-winning Amazon Studios release Wildcat directed by Melissa Lesh & Trevor Frost; the Sundance Jury Award-winning Unrest directed by Jennifer Brea; the scripted feature No Light and No Land Anywhere by writer/director Amber Sealey with executive producer Miranda July; and the documentaries What We Left Unfinished directed by Mariam Ghani and Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq by director/producer Nancy Buirski with creative advisor Martin Scorsese, which premiered at the New York Film Festival and Berlinale. As an executive producer Alysa’s recent films include Alison O’Daniel’s The Tuba Thieves and Reid Davenport’s I Didn’t See You There.

As a co-founder of FWD-Doc, Alysa is an advocate for disabled people in the entertainment industry and beyond, and she is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, the Television Academy, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.