Alex Vlack

Alex Vlack has over twenty years of experience creating books, documentary and narrative films, videos, commercials, television programs, exhibition installations and interactive projects. Linear films and books: "The Revisionist," a novel and feature film script, is in pre-production and he will direct. "Anna", also a novel and feature film script, a love story about a woman in her 70's, is in development. He wrote, produced, and directed (with Damani Baker) "Still Bill", a feature documentary on the musician Bill Withers, which has won numerous awards for best documentary and aired on Showtime. He wrote and produced "High Falls", a short film with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won Best Short Film at the Woodstock Film Festival. He produced and edited "Wisdom"and "Music", each a book and a feature film on cultural figures, from Nelson Mandela to Jane Goodall to Ravi Shankar. Both were collaborations with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. For New York Times Television, he produced the NOVA "Battle Plan Under Fire" and "Raising the Flag", an hour-long documentary on American occupations of foreign lands. Most recently, he wrote "Everywhere Always," a poetry book for children; "White Eyes and Skipping Stone", a middle grade novel set in 17th Century Japan; "Captain Salt", a middle grade novel about a very salty old man and his two thirteen-year-old nemeses; and "Spin and Snap", an adult literary novel about a homeless man with a supernatural dancing ability who becomes a superstar under the tutelage of Jay-Z. Interactive storytelling and spatial media: He wrote the virtual reality interactive film "Broken Night", starring Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival; Executive Produced "That Moment When", the first branching narrative comedy series; the interactive reimagining of "Fame" and "Crime and Punishment"; and "First 30", an interactive romantic comedy with Sharon Horgan's Mermade/Merman Executive Producing. In 2011, Vlack founded the media department at Ralph Appelbaum Associates, building a team of producers and content specialists, as well as talented artists in various disciplines. Under his leadership, the media department completed nearly $40M worth of productions, including the Jewish History Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, IBM's THINK exhibit at Lincoln Center, and a 200-monitor installation for the 2015 World Expo, which was the focus of a Daniel Libeskind-designed pavilion. He wrote, produced, and directed the Centers for Disease Control's two-hour "Global Symphony", a nineteen-screen media installation of animations and documentary films. He wrote, produced, and directed the orientation film at the National Museum of the Marine Corps and wrote all media treatments for the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Advertising: He has created some 50 commercials for Puma and The Gap, and made launch videos for Apple products, among them the iPad and the iPhone 4, which was the most successful product launch in history. Most recently he wrote "Race to Save the World" for Global Citizen, narrated by Oprah Winfrey.