Alex Martinez Kondracke attended Dartmouth College and NYU’s Graduate Film School. At NYU she studied both directing and cinematography. Her first short narrative film Ice Fishing won a jury prize award at Sundance 2000, while her cinematography reel landed her a job shooting for Academy Award-nominated producer Jonathan Stack (The Farm). Upon graduating from NYU, Kondracke began shooting and directing documentaries for Discovery, TLC, BBC, VH1, and National Geographic. In 2004/2005 Kondracke was an ABC/Disney directing fellow. Afterwards she sold several feature pitches to studios and became a co-producer on Showtime’s The L Word. In 2009 Kondracke directed the musical comedy feature Girltrash: All Night Long and she plans to make See You on the Dark Side her next movie.