Alexandra Redwood

Screenwriter, Director, Producer and Author

Stockholm, Sweden

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February 2021

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About Alexandra

Alex is a multi-award-winning director, screenwriter and independent filmmaker. Originally from Canada, she was raised in Europe and is a third culture kid. She studied film in Stockholm and began her career directing commercials and music videos. After Sweden, she moved to Toronto where she was a finalist in the Saatchi & Saatchi First Cut Awards for best new directorial talent.

Alex’s 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's short film script Antique also picked up a semifinalist award in the Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition 2022 and is currently in post production.

Her short film Blue Hour (no budget, no crew) is a reflective tale about a teenage boy during the pandemic and his feelings of aloneness and disconnect. It was semifinalist at Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival 2022 and semifinalist at the Lonely Wolf International Film Festival 2022. It also won in three categories at the Independent Shorts Awards and received an honourable mention for best indie film at Top Shorts.

Alex also has a children's book internationally published and a memoir.

Alex is a passionate skier, lover of dogs, and all things aquatic. True to her Great White North heritage, Alex prefers winter and cold weather and adds maple syrup to just about everything. She splits her time between Stockholm and Toronto.

Unique qualities:
Palliative and hospice care (volunteer)
Multilingual - English, Swedish, Spanish, French, basic German.
All things aquatic - swimming in open water with dolphins and humpback whales

Gender:
Female

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So thrilled that my short film Blue Hour was recognized!

Loglines

STELLA Budget: $1M - $5M | Mystery ⋄ Fantasy A teenage girl, missing and presumed dead, returns with newfound abilities and uses them to bait and trap a serial killer who has gone unchecked in her community for decades.
SUM OF ME Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Drama A female defense attorney discovers her only hope at life is a kidney transplant and so she searches for her biological relatives only to find out her mother is dead and her father is serving time.
REDACTED Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Historical When a Swedish award-winning documentary filmmaker receives mysterious recordings and classified documents from an anonymous source about Marilyn Monroe, the Kennedy brothers, and godfather Sam Giancana, she goes against her partner's wishes and jumps into investigating the project.
Mother of Many Drama ⋄ Comedy A jobless, single transgender mom raising three adopted kids by day decides to open a dominatrix den in her garage to make ends meet. It all goes south when her aging, no-filter, homophobic, homeless uncle shows up and moves into her garage.
Antique Drama A kind and trusting woman is in New York for her friend’s bachelorette party and is swayed to meet an old classmate – a decision she’ll regret after she becomes a victim of date rape.
Blue Hour Drama A reflective tale about a teenage boy during the pandemic.
Dreamer Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi In the year 2099, a woman becomes addicted to an escapism serum and technology to spend time with her belated family in uploaded memories, in turn, she unexpectedly slips into a future timeline and makes strange discoveries about reality.

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Credits

Blue Hour (2022)
Film (short) (Drama) Director Writer Producer
Blue Hour (2022)
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Blue Hour (2022)
Film (short) Writer Director Producer
Blue Hour (2022)
Film (short) Writer Director Producer
Blue Hour (2022)
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Blue Hour (2022)
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Blue Hour (2021 - 2022)
Film (short) (Drama) Writer Director Producer A teenage boy dreams about the year 2020 and reflects back on his feelings of aloneness and disconnect. In the end, he decides it's the small things in life that make it all worth while.
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