Assia Boundaoui (she/her) is an Algerian-American investigative journalist and filmmaker. She has reported internationally for PRI, BBC, AlJazeera, VICE, and CNN. Her debut short film, created for HBO Documentary Films, is set in an Arab women’s hair salon in Chicago and premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2017. Her award-winning feature-length directorial debut, The Feeling of Being Watched, is a documentary investigating a decade of FBI surveillance in Assia's community. It had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and was nationally broadcast on PBS’ POV. Assia was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 2018 "25 New Faces of Independent Film,” was a 2019 New America National Fellow, and in 2020 was honored with the Livingston Award for national reporting. In 2021, Assia was awarded a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, and in 2022 she 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 called the Inverse Surveillance Project. Assia earned a Masters degree in journalism at New York University and is an Algiers-born, Arabic speaking Chicagoan.