Alex Heller is a writer/director working between Los Angeles, Chicago, and Norway. Her debut feature film The Year Between, an autobiographical comedy about bipolar disorder that stars J. Smith-Cameron and Steve Buscemi, premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. It then sold to Peacock and received praise from The New York Times, Variety, Roger Ebert, and NPR. Heller’s recent short film Debaters (starring J. Smith-Cameron and Kenneth Lonergan) premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, was selected for the Sundance Short Film Tour, and is a proof-of-concept for an upcoming feature film of the same title.