Alex graduated Harvard University with a BA in Visual Art. His documentary about tank-riding reindeer herders, Songs from the Tundra, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Provincetown International Film Festival. For his documentary work, he received the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to shoot a feature about spirituality and disaster in the Russian Far East called The Volcano People. He recently finished the American Film Institute as a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow. He currently lives in Los Angeles.