I'm a filmmaker and trauma informed practioner that works at the intersection of personal healing and collective transformation. For two decades, I've been welcomed into homes to co-create stories around sensitive subjects — from the refugee crisis on a Greek island to women entrepreneurs across the Middle East to a high-stakes Alzheimer's trial in California — learning to treat storytelling as an act of deep listening and consent. Right now, I’m co-directing Natura, a feature documentary about the emotional landscape of climate change, filmed across five countries in collaboration with National Geographic photographer Nichole Sobecki and produced by Insignia Films, three-time Emmy and Peabody Award–winning producers,.
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 was 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; 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 hero of mine, academy-award winning film director Louie Psihoyos.
I believe that through somatic awareness, ritual, and threshold experiences, we can reconnect to our bodies, our communities, and the natural world. This 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; in plant medicine as a dedicated student of the Shipibo-Conibo in Peru; and in shamanic studies in the Q’ero Andean traditions.
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 and a BA in International Relations at Tufts University
“I just watched Eyes of Exodus, what a beautiful but tragic story. And the turn with Damien and Monika was so heart wrenching. Santiago Calatrava is incredibly well put together, cinematography is marvelous, editing, music, all in sync with the story.”
“I watched Eyes of Exodus in a gulp. Not only is the film poetic, tragic, fresh, emotional, full of commitment, full of hope and sadness, it is cinematic and essential...”
“Alexandra has a powerful sense of cinematic time and a beautiful touch for character. ”
“I’ve had the pleasure to meet Alexandra’s art. I appreciated the quality of it, I felt very touched with emotion... my dear friend Victor Kossakovsky says she is both a top pro in film and a beautiful soul.”