Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American investigative journalist and filmmaker. Her award-winning feature-length directorial debut, The Feeling Of Being Watched, a documentary investigating a decade of FBI surveillance in Assia’s community, had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Assia was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 2018 25 New Faces of Independent Film, was a 2019 New America National Fellow, in 2020 was honored with the Livingston Award for national reporting, in 2021 was awarded a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan and in 2022 was awarded a United States Artist fellowship. She was most recently a fellow at the Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, where she incubated a community co-created, site-specific installation, the Inverse Surveillance Project. Assia earned a Masters degree in journalism at New York University and is an Algiers born, Arabic speaking, Chicagoan.