Alisa Stern & Scott Ampleford

Alisa is an artist, puppet maker, and animator from New York City.

Scott is a composer, musician, and actor from Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Despite living thousands of miles apart, Alisa and Scott have collaborated on many projects including the web series Doctor Puppet (2012-2018) which has over 4 million views on YouTube, animated short Sum of its Parts (2019) which screened at many pandemic-era festivals including the New York International Childrens Film Festival and Woodstock Film Festival, animated short Posted No Hunting (2021) which screened at dozens of horror and genre festivals including Boston Underground Film Festival, FilmQuest, Grimmfest, Anomaly, Panic Fest, Feratum, Portland Horror Film Festival, Another in the Head and Coney Island Film Festival and won “Best Micro-Scare” at the Blackbird Film Festival. Alisa and Scott also co-wrote and co-directed live action featurette Spiral to the Center (2023) which played at Chattanooga Film Festival, FilmQuest and Beeston Film Festival and won “Most Innovative Film” at the Romford Horror Festival and “Best Short Film” at the Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival.