Alex Leff
- Editorial Department
- Director
- Editor
Alex Leff is an emerging documentary filmmaker, immersive theater creator, and podcast producer. His most recent film, Cycle of Memory, won "Best of the Festival" at the Sunset LA Film Festival in 2022. While working on this production he released a critically acclaimed immersive theater comedy Bar of Dreams, and worked on several HBO and PBS documentary filmmakers as an assistant editor. For his 2015 feature, In The Path of Resistance, Alex followed three front-line communities living along the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to highlight their struggle and resiliency. In The Path of Resistance was picked up for international broadcast and translated into Spanish, Arabic, and Russian. His 2013 film Students & Goliath: How The Youth Took On The Fossil Fuel Industry was hailed by eminent environmentalist Bill McKibben as an essentially organizing tool for the climate movement. Alex earned a Bachelor of Arts studying documentary film at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.