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-edited 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. 

Her next incarnation was with BuzzFeed’s Branded Video, an in-house advertising agency, where she served as Editor and then 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, Citibank 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 nomadic queer community's dreams of creating a safe space on the fringe of society are shattered when unthinkable tragedy strikes. It premiered at Big Sky Film Festival Missoula in 2025, won the Jury Prize for Best Feature at San Francisco DocFest, and has also been an official selection at Raindance Film Festival London, Inside Out Toronto, Dance With Films Los Angeles, and Atlanta Docufest.

Alex is currently continuing to freelance, mainly cutting music-related content for Live Nation and Immanent.