Originally from San Francisco, Alex graduated magna cum laude from Kenyon College and recently finished an MFA in Film from UCLA. He began his career in New York as a member of the DGA Training Program and then went on to work for several years as an assistant editor for Spike Lee.

In 2010 Alex – along with cinematographer Michael Totten — created Sparrow Songs a new media documentary project in which they made and released one short documentary a month, every month for one year. The project developed a worldwide following with Filmmaker Magazine calling the films “poetic essays about love, truth, community and the ways we are choosing to live our lives” and naming the duo to their list of The 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

The work was nominated for a World Press Photo award, screened at IDFA in Amsterdam and SXSW in Austin and is currently taught at the CUNY School of Journalism, Concordia University in Montreal and at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In addition to this, in January Alex spoke at the Sundance Film Festival about the intersection of film and technology.

Currently, Alex is developing his next documentary x new media project with Rough House Pictures and is in post on two films: editing the feature narrative California Solo which will premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and the feature doc Low & Clear which he’s both producing and editing.