Alejandra Vasquez is a Mexican-American filmmaker raised between rural Texas and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her award-winning films spotlight youth, art & culture and convey a cinematic sense of place in rural and borderland environments. Her feature directorial debut, co-directed with Sam Osborn, Going Varsity in Mariachi, premiered at Sundance 2023, won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition, and is now streaming on Netflix.

Now based in Los Angeles, Alejandra co-founded Masa Films with her partner Sam Osborn, where they are developing, producing and directing nonfiction and narrative projects. She is writing her first feature script, Half Orange, with support from the SFFILM Rainin Fellowship.