Alexandra Liveris

I’m Alexandra Liveris, a filmmaker and storyteller drawn to the places where personal healing and collective transformation meet. For over 15 years, I’ve traveled the world and been welcomed into people’s homes and inner lives to co-create the telling of their experiences—often around sensitive themes like displacement, belonging, freedom, and creative expression. Through this work, I’ve learned how to hold space for honest, intimate conversations and how to approach storytelling as an act of deep listening and consent. Right now, I’m co-directing Natura, a feature documentary about motherhood in the time of climate crisis, filmed across six countries in collaboration with award-winning National Geographic photographer Nichole Sobecki and produced by Insignia Films.

My films have screened in over 150 U.S. cities and internationally at major festivals and retrospectives. “Eyes of Exodus” won the Jury Award at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, the Audience award at Aspen ShortsFilm Festival and the Vimeo Staff Pick “Best of the Month” and is optioned for a feature adaptation by Faliro House.  Nocturnity premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival and was featured by Indiewire, Complex Magazine and Deadline Hollywood. “Santiago Calatrava” premiered at DocNYC, Nowness and the Prague City Gallery. I’ve created projects for Google Creative Lab that reached over 18 million viewers in their first week online and have collaborated with visionary artists across music and film in South Africa, Mexico, Australia, and Saudi Arabia and spent a year in the field directing with an environmental activist hero of mine, academy-award winning film director Louie Psihoyos.

I am passionate about storytelling as a healing practice. I believe that through somatic awareness, ritual, and myth, we can reconnect to our bodies, our communities, and the natural world. This belief has guided my own studies in theater with John Gould Rubin’s Private Theater, Stella Adler Studio, and Maggie Flannigan; in yoga as a certified Jivamukti teacher; and in plant medicine as a dedicated student of the Shipibo-Conibo tradition in Peru. I explore these ideas through my poetry project, The Poet Tree Collective, where I continue to ask: how can stories help us remember who we truly are?

Some other things:

-I worked as a writer and story producer for National Geographic and “The Charlie Rose Show”

-I co-founded the Rethink Refugees program for the Clinton Global Initiative

-I received an MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University; Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship; and Stanford Graduate School of Business Ignite Fellowship

-I never leave home without a scarf - the most useful and versatile clothing item in the field