Awards & Jury
Alexandria Bombach
Alexandria Bombach is an award-winning documentary filmmaker from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Focusing on character-driven stories, Alexandria's work challenges perceptions of cultures, issues, and ideas that usually have limited or sensationalized coverage in mainstream media. Her feature-length documentary "Frame by Frame" had it's world premiere at SXSW in 2015 and has since won 18 festival awards. The film follows the lives of four Afghan photojournalists who are facing the realities of building Afghanistan's first free press. In 2012, she directed and produced the Emmy-Award winning series "Moveshake" that gave an honest look into the complicated lives of people who have set out to make a positive environmental or social impact. Founding her production company RED REEL in 2009, Alexandria has spent the last six years living "on the road" as a filmmaker and freelance documentary cinematographer.
Films at Persian Film Festival
Dir: Bombach & Scarpelli | 2015
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