Anne Alexander

About
Anne Alexander

Anne Alexander is an award-winning independent film producer and executive producer based in New York, and a founding partner of the production studio Cousins. Her credits include THE COME UP, an eight-part docu-series for Hulu and Freeform; NOSFERASTA: FIRST BITE, winner of the Tiger Shorts Award at IFFR; BYRON & SHELLEY: ILLUMINATI DETECTIVES; and Kehinde Wiley's PRELUDE, a six-screen installation commissioned by the National Gallery in London. She is currently in post-production on two narrative features set to premiere in late 2026.

Selected Projects
2024
American Artist: The Monophobic Response
Museum Exhibition
Executive Producer
Exhibition film for American Artist's solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Pioneer Works.
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Notable Exhibitions
LACMA Pioneer Works MIT
Press
Boston Art Review
2023
Hangtime
Short Film
Producer
Written and directed by Chester Toye. An eager young artist receives a disturbing and surreal introduction to the art world during the delivery of a controversial sculpture. Premiered in competition at the Atlanta Film Festival.
Festivals & Notable Screenings
Atlanta Film Festival — In Competition Short of the Week No Budge
2022
The Come Up
Unscripted Series · Freeform + Hulu
Executive Producer
Original unscripted series connected and produced for Freeform and Hulu. Directed by Cousins partners Ana Veselic and Jessica Chermayeff, this eight-part doc-follow series charted the lives and early careers of six young creatives as New York City roared back to life after the pandemic.
Press
i-D The Cut Vogue Forbes The Wrap
2022
Nosferasta: First Bite
Short Film
Producer
Written and directed by Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer. A non-linear time warp spanning 500 years of colonial destruction — setting the groundwork for the story of Oba, an immortal Rastafarian vampire, and Christopher Columbus, posing questions of authorship, collaboration, and myth. Commissioned by Spike Island, Gasworks, Creative Capitol, and Cinereach.
Festivals & Notable Screenings
IFFR Ammodo Tiger Short Award Winner MoMA US Premiere Indie Lisboa Le Cinema Club BAM
2021
Byron & Shelley: Illuminati Detectives
Short Film
Producer
Written, starring, and directed by Leah Hennessey and Emily Allan. Re-imagines the secret lives of Romantic poets Percy Shelley and Lord Byron as sex and drug-addled members of the Illuminati sent around Europe to debunk mystical crimes. Commissioned by dis.art for the 2021 Biennale de l'image en Mouvement, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva.
Festivals & Notable Screenings
Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement Geneva Courtisane The Henry Metrograph The Roxy
Press
Art Forum Cultured
2021
Kehinde Wiley: Prelude
Multi-Screen Film Installation
Producer
Three multi-screen installations directed by Kehinde Wiley for his galleries in Paris and London, plus his ambitious film Prelude — shot entirely in the fjords of Norway in March 2020. Both Prelude and Narrenschiff are held in permanent museum collections. Commissioned by the National Gallery, London.
Festivals & Notable Screenings
National Gallery London Permanent Museum Collections
Contact
anneoalexander@gmail.com @its_me_anne