still from video by Resti Bagcal
Producer | Director | Visual Storyteller
Aileen Jane Imperial is a visual storyteller and filmmaker whose work explores the vulnerability and strength of people and communities.
She values journalistic integrity, authenticity, equity, and thoughtful observation & engagement.
Her work has aired nationally on PBS and she is a 13-time nominee and 4-time Emmy winner.
2023
Skydiving with John: Multiple Sclerosis Adventure Program
Culture Shift for Care: LGBTQIA+ & Gender Affirming care at Providence Swedish Residency Program
Gratitude - A message from Swedish’s executive leadership
A Valentine visit from Ms. Teen Washington
Health Tips from the Caregivers of Providence Swedish
Nurse Queena: Nils Johanson award for Compassion
2022
Palliative Care: A Doctor and Mother’s View
When Art Speaks: Living After Stroke With Speech Aphasia
Black Caregivers of Providence-Swedish
A day with Zach and Occupational Therapist Amy
The Manikins and People behind the Swedish Simulation Center
Surviving Metastatic Cervical Cancer: Selena’s Story
Reflections on a pandemic from Swedish hospital healthcare workers
Nurse Assistant Ligaya: Nils Johanson award for Compassion
Nurse Hussein: Nils Johanson award for Justice
And We Rise: Climbers of Color (trailer)
And We Rise: Climbers of Color (full length)
2020-2021
Native Soul Cuisine
Nosotros Somos Essenciales: Eastern WA farmworker’s fight for justice
The New Normal: Cutting through the chaos
Art Seen: Heartbreak and hope on plywood
The New Normal: Delivering hope to elders in isolation
The New Normal: Lesson planning for a pandemic
Art Seen: Finding joy in the everyday
Art Seen: The calculated creativity of coding
Art Seen: The language behind the baton
Art Seen: Mastering the humble hom bow
Art Seen: Behind the masks of Lucha Libre
Art Seen: The choreography of climbing
2019
Ano ba yan? Two plays in Tagalog arrive on one Seattle stage
20 years after Columbine, Ballard High theater students address school shootings
370 dance videos combined into one striking solo
A swarm of starlings invades a Seattle gallery
A love letter to dance
Dystopian warning wrapped in pretty boxes
A day in the life of a homeless father of four
The Stuff Around Us with Susie Lee: Light
The Stuff Around Us with Susie Lee: Water
The Stuff Around Us with Susie Lee: Glass
The Stuff Around Us with Susie Lee: Clay
2018
Cleaning the glass at a Seattle icon
Artist Natasha Marin flips the script with Black Joy
Sculptor George Rodriguez celebrates and transcends his Mexican heritage
Less waltz, more vogue: A look at LGBTQ ball culture
42 garments honoring 42 trans lives lost
Borders and Heritage: She fled war, mastered English and became WA poet laureate
The keeper of 155 thousand extraordinary books
Noah’s March: 11-year-old breaks record walking for a cure
Kuya Geo: Rhymes and rants about Seattle driving
Kuya Geo: How the Filipino community took root in Seattle
Kuya Geo: The zigs and zags of immigrant identity
Kuya Geo: How Bruce Lee destroyed the stereotype of the Asian male
2017
#StartUpsSoWhite - So these entrepreneurs are breaking barriers
The choir that sings for the dying
Remembering Akio, beloved UW professor and ceramic artist
Graduating at 92: One woman’s journey through a U.S. Japanese incarceration camp
The tiny house village that started a movement
The history and people behind Seattle’s oldest sushi restaurant
Guyaba on her new album, “Black Trash/White House”
Amid soaring rents, low-income residents win protection
2016
Borders and Heritage: A Syrian refugee family builds a new life in Seattle
The Machine to Be Another: Virutal body-swapping to build empathy
Knitters support breast cancer survivors with “Knitted Knockers”
A national park in downtown Seattle
The Chimps of Cle Elum
The spirit of rowing on the Duwamish river
The beat of a movement in Rama Thiaw’s “The Revolution Won’t Be Televised”
Creating Julia: UW Professor helps Sesame Street create a character with Autism
Borders and Heritage: On the road to citizenship
The Seattle Majestics women’s football league (multimedia)
Borders and Heritage: Sowing hope, a refugee story
A conversation about race, inspired by dance
How Pussy Riot’s punk prayers became a movement
2015
Cancer Stories: Dr. Keith Eaton
Senior Sliders: Embracing Aging through Dance
Borders and Heritage: Abdullahi’s journey from refugee camp to college campus
Path with Art Singers: Healing through song
Speaking History: StoryCorps visits Seattle
Yoga Behind Bars
Locolare pitch: A bike ride through a city of change
2014
Escaping Prostitution through Art (starts at 18:44)
Voices of Oso: A Story of Healing
Voices of Oso: The Spirt of Service
Voices of Oso: A Mayor’s View
Art Seen: Amy and Ellie dancing thru years
ReScene: Moncton the town beneath Rattlesnake Lake
ReScene: 7th and Olive downtown Seattle
ReScene: Suquamish
ReScene: Poulsbo
ReScene: WA peninsula towns
ReScene: 3rd and Pike
ReScene: Ballard
A day at the Frye
2013
Art Seen: Paige Barnes
Art Seen: Vancouver Public Art
Art Seen: First Thursday
Art Seen: Cheap Wine and Poetry at Hugo House
Folklife 2013
Geekwire game night
Hopscotch Central District
ReScene: International District
ReScene: Georgetown
ReScene: Boren church to rent-a-car
ReScene: Ride the Ducks
ReScene: Capitol Hill
ReScene: Beacon Hill FireHouse
ReScene: South Park La Cantina
ReScene: Greenwood
Rollerderby
Jet City Improv's Black Cloud
SmashPutt
Art Seen: Toddler breakdancing
Crisp Creperie
2012 and older
Searching for Lead Bunny - An Interactive Documentary
(Filmmaker, HTML and CSS developer. For optimum experience use Chrome or Firefox on desktop)
The Odd Fellows Out
Healing My Broken Womb
Something in the Water (Associate Producer)
Succeess at the Core (Associate Producer)
Oil and Water (Production Assistant)
Contact
imperialaj@gmail.com
206.446.4326