fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors:Lexi Alexander b. 23 August, 1974Alexander is a German film director born
fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors:Lexi Alexander b. 23 August, 1974Alexander is a German film director born to a Palestinian father and German mother. She began her career as an athlete, becoming a world champion in karate and point fighting by the time she was a teenager. In 2002 she directed and co-wrote the short film Johnny Flynton. The film was made for $100,000 and was self-funded by Alexander. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. In 2005 she made her feature film directorial debut with Green Street a film about football hooligans. It premiered at the SXSW Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Award. She followed this up in 2008 with Punisher: War Zone, an adaptation of the comic book of the same name making her the first (and until 2017 the only) woman to direct a superhero movie. The film was a commercial flop. In 2010 Alexander directed her third and most recent feature, Lifted. By 2014 Alexander was frustrated over the lack of opportunities she had been given in the film industry. She wrote a blog post detailing the sexism she had faced in the industry which went viral. She became known for her activism work and spoke openly about producers who refused to take meetings with her because of her gender and the way in which male directors were allowed to direct movies despite repeated financial flops while women directors were not given the same opportunities. Though Alexander expressed fear that her activism would lead her to be blackballed from jobs, as of 2015 interest in her work as a director has increased and she has moved to television where she has worked on Arrow, Supergirl, Limitless and American Gothic. -- source link