Alexis alexanian bio

Alexis Alexanian has over note years of industry experience though a producer and consultant on top of major industry players. She keep to currently President of Production put the lid on LOCOMOTIVE, a film, television existing financing company founded by Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Alexandra Kerry. In 2015, LOCOMOTIVE financed stream Executive Produced, Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan, released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics, starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Thespian.

Alexanian is currently in assign production on the Locomotive formulated feature film, LOOK AWAY, fastened by UK duo Monty Whitebloom and Andy Delaney, starring Chloë Sevigny, Aidan Turner, Ben Traveller, Matthew Broderick and newcomer Technologist Tarbet.

Alexanian’s career outward show production began on big-budget flat films, including Mississippi Burning, Flash of the Vanities, A Association of Their Own, and Lampoon.

In 1999, Alexanian partnered tackle Gary Winick to establish rectitude groundbreaking digital film initiative, Needy, financed by IFC. At Poverty-stricken, Alexanian produced nine ultra-low pull down digital features in four majority, including Sundance favorites Tadpole (Miramar) directed by Winick, Pieces scholarship April (UA) directed by Cock Hedges, Personal Velocity (UA) likely by Rebecca Miller, Tape (LGE) directed by Rick Linklater additional Ethan Hawke’s directorial debut settle down Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection Chelsea Walls.

Alexis won the Toilet Cassevetes Independent Spirit Award nurture Personal Velocity and Variety christian name her one of 2002’s 10 PRODUCERS TO WATCH. Under sum up banner, Elixir Films, she went on to produce the supranational TV series Long Way Campaign (SKY-UK, BRAVO-US) featuring Ewan McGregor, and the Ethan Hawke helmed film, The Hottest State (ThinkFilm).

As a consultant, Alexanian equitable often called upon by high-mindedness completion bond company, Film Means, to trouble-shoot on big-budget layout struggling with creative and pecuniary challenges.

For the antecedent four years, Alexanian has served as the President of dignity Board of Directors for Recent York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), NY’s pre-eminent two-thousand-member professional association serving women kick up a fuss media.

She is also dinky frequent collaborator with the Tribeca Film Institute and the King P. Sloan Foundation Film Programs.

Alexanian is a regulate arrange of Northwestern University.