Talent Guide
Alexandra Brodsky
- Discipline:Writer
- Program Year:Screenwriting Lab 2008
Bio
Alexandra’s short films Didactic Encounter, Rabbi Rick and the Hamburger Choo Choo, and Miss Alissa have screened at venues including New Directors/New Films, Los Angeles Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Nantucket Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival (Didactic Encounter: winner, best short film) and Saint Mark’s Church in New York, among others. Her feature film Bittersweet Place premiered at the Tribeca Film festival, garnering a special Jury Commendation. Other screenings of Bittersweet Place include Montreal World Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, Starz International Film Festival (Emerging Filmmaker nominee), Steven Spielberg’s Jewish Eye Film Festival, Oldenburg Film Festival, Silver Lake Film Festival (Winner, Best Film), Washington Jewish Film Festival, and Wim Wender’s Frankfurt Film Festival, among others. Bittersweet Place was acquired by by the Sundance Channel. With writing partner John Benton, Alexandra is adapting the award-winning pulp fiction crime novel Bust by Jason Starr and Ken Bruen, as well as directing the documentary American Bollywood, about the burgeoning Bollywood scene in the US. Alexandra is an alumnus of Nantucket Screenwriter’s Colony, Film Independent Screenwriters Lab, and a Fulbright Scholar. She received her MFA from Yale School of Art.