ALDONA WATTS is an award-winning filmmaker working in the Bay Area. Her career began in a forest village in Lithuania, where she met a group of elderly women who were the last to carry on an ancient folk singing tradition. Over the ensuing years, Aldona gathered a team and together they documented the women's songs and stories. Out of this experience grew her first film, documentary feature Land of Songs (2015). Land of Songs had its World Premiere at the Vilnius International Film Festival and a North American Premiere with the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the Museum of Natural History in NYC, where it garnered the Filmmaker Award Special Mention. It also received the Audience Award from the Chicago European Film Festival and was voted back the following year for an encore screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

From there, Aldona has continued to direct, produce and edit documentaries. Her work has premiered at major festivals and can be found on Netflix, The New Yorker Videos, Discovery+ and public television.

Aldona is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, the Alliance of Documentary Editors, Film Fatales, The Video Consortium, and the Bay Area Women Directors' Collective.