Résumé

Biography

Alex was born and raised in Palo Alto, California. He has lived in the Los Angeles area for 8 years. He currently lives in Santa Monica with his girlfriend Jessica and assorted animals. His parents research microbiology at Stanford University and his sister is an art major at UCLA.

Alex developed a passion for dramatic storytelling and experimentation being involved in high school theater, first performing on stage, then moving on to write and direct short plays and design sets. He became interested in filmmaking in 1994 when the independent film movement brought a steady stream of engaging, provocative and refreshingly alternative cinema to the art house theaters of the Palo Alto area. Most appealing was the potential for film to convey positive ideas. Alex privately studied film throughout high school, exploring successful films that promoted awareness of environmental concerns and social injustice, as well as films that pushed artistic boundaries.

Alex moved to Los Angeles in 1998 and began an internship at Destination Films. Staying with the internship for 3 years, Alex read nearly 1000 screenplays and saw the rise and fall of the $300 million company. Along the way he took classes at Santa Monica College and UCLA Extension, read books on filmmaking, worked as a production assistant on small film sets, and began to write his own screenplays. In 2001, Alex worked on several short film productions gaining insight and eventually being hired as the Key Set Dresser for the feature film Loco Love. In 2002, Alex embarked upon producing and directing an equity waiver production of the play Little Murders at West Hollywood’s Zephyr Theatre. Financed by cashing in a life insurance policy, the play ran successfully for 5 weeks. In 2003, Alex attended the Los Angeles Film School’s 1-year immersion filmmaking program, producing the thesis film Fool’s Paradise.

For the past 2 years, Alex has been working on several screenplays including a children’s adventure and an expose on the effects of Wal-Mart on small towns. He has also been working in post production on TV shows including Comedians of Comedy and the film Suffering Man’s Charity. He has been involved in short videos produced by Andy & Scott for Channel101.com and he directed a popular :30 spot for the Firefox Flicks ad contest.

Alex continues to enjoy traveling around the country, backpacking the high Sierras, and anything else that seems a bit ridiculous to be doing at his age. He remains exhilarated by the process of dramatic storytelling and the challenges involved in nurturing new ideas in the rapidly changing business climate of Hollywood.