Alexander is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, director, producer, cinematographer and editor, with over 10 years of experience making premium documentaries for clients like National Geographic, CNN, A+E, Peacock, Scripps News, and more. He’s a Columbia Du-Pont Award recipient, and two-time grand jury award winner at festival world premieres. His work focuses on global conflict, human rights, climate, culture and politics.

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His most recent film, Mediha, Executive Produced by Emma Thompson, premiered at Doc NYC in 2023 where it won the Grand Jury Award in US Competition. Since its premiere, Mediha has won 10 Grand Jury awards and also premiered at Big Sky Film Festival, CPH DOX, Human Rights Watch, Thessaloniki, and Movies That Matter, where it earned The Activist Award. Mediha premiered theatrically at Film Forum in NY, LA & the UK, October 2024.

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As a journalist, he embedded with the Proud Boys for several months and reported from the January 6th Capitol Riot, which resulted in the 2024 film 64 Days: The Insurrection Playbook. He's covered the opioid epidemic, US Mexico relations, UAP's, Covid-19, The Syrian Civil War, illegal puma hunting in Patagonia, and most recently ISIS’s genocide against the Yazidi community in Kurdistan.​​

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He produced Higher Love, which won the Grand Jury Award for best documentary feature at Slamdance Film Festival 2020, and named one of the Best Documentaries of 2020 by No Film School. Higher Love is distributed by Gravitas Ventures, and released for streaming on November 3, 2020.

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His past work includes, CNN: Fareed Zakaria, National Geographic, NBC Peacock, Channel 4, A+E Networks / Six West Media, Blinx Shahid, Birchbox, TSMC, Showtime, Lionsgate, History Channel, Goldcrest Films, Gravitas Ventures & Saboteur Media, Scripps News, Greenpeace USA, Strongest Man On Earth, Backroads Pictures, and Victory Roads Studios.​

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Alexander was an associate producer to Nick Quested and Sebastian Junger for the award winning National Geographic Documentaries; Hell On Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS (Tribeca 2017), which earned an Alfred I. du-Pont Columbia University Award for Excellence in Journalism and Investigative Reporting in 2018.  And Blood On The Wall,  a broad investigative documentary about Mexico and it’s war on drugs and migration, which premiered at AFI Doc Fest in June 2020, and had its broadcast premiere on September 3, 2020 for National Geographic. Currently streaming on Hulu.

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Prior to his work in film, Alex studied journalism and political science at Marist College while fulfilling an NCAA Division I athletic scholarship for football. At University, he wrote for USA Today, The Poughkeepsie Journal, and Motif Magazine, and served as President of The Society of Professional Journalists Marist College Chapter, from 2013-2015, with the chapter earning Northeast Campus Chapter of the year in 2014.

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Alex is a 2024 artist in residence at Bend Film's Basecamp Lab, and currently lives in Bend, Oregon. When he's not working he's probably in the outdoors with his son Heron.

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