Semifinalist, 2026/2027 Top Tier Competition
BIO
Alex is a dual Canadian Dutch citizen and a multi-award-winning screenwriter, director and independent filmmaker. She studied film in Sweden and began her career directing commercials and music videos.
Alex's latest achievement includes winning the Outstanding Screenplay TV Pilot Competition with her pilot script for her new drama series The Gift.
Her feature screenplay Redacted was among the top 10% of all entries in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship Competition 2023 and was a finalist in The Golden Script Competition 2023.
Alex also wrote, directed and produced her second short film Salt - a 23 mins. film about the all-too-common problem of drug facilitated sexual assault (DFSA). Salt stars UK talents Nadia Parkes and Freddie Dennis and earned nominations for Best Medium-Length Film and Best Drama at the Lonely Wolf International Film Festival in 2025.
Alex's curiosity of the human condition and search for ecstatic truth gives her an emotive and unique voice as a writer/director.