Biography
Alexis Ostrander is an award-winning and Emmy nominated director. Since graduating from Syracuse University, she has worked consistently in film and television, starting out in documentaries before segueing into narrative storytelling. In 2014 she was a participant in the 40th annual AFI Directing Workshop for Women.
Alexis received the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant, Creative District Grant, Impact First Films Grant, and The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors Foundation Grant to enable her to make her first short film, THE HAIRCUT, premiering at AFI Fest in 2014. It has since played over 45 festivals, garnering 13 awards. In 2016 Alexis was selected for the Ryan Murphy Half Foundation Mentorship Program and subsequently directed the penultimate episode of AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ROANOKE for FX. She was a participant in the Fox Filmmakers Lab and Fox Global Directors Initiative and was a drama fellow for the apprenticeship program on HOMELAND.
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