Alexis Krasilovsky

The winner of a lifetime achievement award from the 2011 Gdansk DocFilm Festival and a 2008 Tribute Award "for achievements in independent cinema" from the San Francisco Women's Film Festival, Krasilovsky has become increasingly interested in global interconnectedness, as demonstrated in her documentary, "Women Behind the Camera." This global feature (and the shorter version, "Shooting Women" -- shot in Hollywood, Bollywood and beyond -- has won five "Best Documentary" awards, and Krasilovsky has traveled with her films to screenings in Austria, Bangladesh, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, the Republic of Macedonia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and the United States. Alexis Krasilovsky's films, videos and holograms also include the award-winning global documentary feature "Let Them Eat Cake," about the pleasures and perils of pastries; "End of the Art World," starring Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg; "Exile," filmed in Czechoslovakia before the fall of the Iron Curtain and shown nationally on PBS; "Just Between Me & God," shown nationally on The Learning Channel's series, "The Independents"; the hologram "Childbirth Dream," exhibited in the Georges Pompidou Center (Paris); and the hologram "Created and Consumed by Light," exhibited at the World Expo (Seoul), and the International Festival of Computer Graphics (Tokyo). After studying film/art history at Yale University, Krasilovsky received an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts, and is a Professor in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Northridge, where she teaches Screenwriting and Media Theory & Criticism. Krasilovsky is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West, and the author of "Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling" (Routledge: NY/London, October 2017) and "Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen"(Praeger), as well as co-author of "Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World" (Intellect Books, University of Chicago Press, 2015). Krasilovsky's narrative film, Blood, was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times as "in its stream-of-consciousness way, more powerful than Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver."