Alex J. Bledsoe is a filmmaker whose work illuminates daily life on the frontlines of racial capitalism and the portals we create for our physical and psychospiritual liberation. Oaklead, her debut feature documentary, is a grantee of Sundance, Berkeley Film Foundation, Redford Center, Fund for Investigative Journalism, Jonathan Logan Famil Foundation, a BAVC MediaMaker, a Cucalorus/Working Films/Documentary Accountability Working Group Works-in-Progress Lab Fellow and California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow.

Bledsoe produced the scripted feature film, Residue, about gentrification in Washington, D.C., which streamed on Netflix after screening at Venice International Film Festival and being distributed by Ava Duvernay’s Array. Residue won the John Cassavetes Award and was nominated for Best Editing at the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Bledsoe is the co-founder of Breaktide, the all women-of-color-owned film production company. She has been a guest columnist for the Washington Post and a live featured guest on KQED Forum for her filmmaking and activism. Bledsoe earned her B.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University.