Alexandra Johnes

Alexandra Johnes

Nacimiento : 1976-12-03, New York City, New York, USA

Historia

Alexandra Johnes is an American documentary film producer and former actress. Johnes graduated with a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). From 2007 through 2012, Johnes ran Jigsaw Productions for Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney, managing aspects of development and production. In 2012, Johnes received a Transatlantic Partnership (TAP) Producing Fellowship [6] from the Independent Filmmaker Project,. Johnes leads the production company Special Projects. Johnes' sister Stephanie also works in film. Stephanie directed and filmed the 2007 documentary Doubletime, on which Alexandra worked as a Producer.

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Alexandra Johnes

Películas

The Territory
Executive Producer
Una red de agricultores brasileños se apodera de una zona protegida de la selva amazónica, un joven líder indígena y su mentor deben contraatacar en defensa de la tierra y de un grupo no contactado que vive en lo más profundo de la selva.
Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down
Executive Producer
The extraordinary story of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords: her relentless fight to recover following an assassination attempt in 2011, and her new life as one of the most effective activists in the battle against gun violence.
Delikado
Executive Producer
In the majestic tropical island of Palawan, three environmental crusaders confront murder, betrayal and political corruption in this thrilling documentary about land defenders battling to save and preserve paradise in the Philippines.
The Seer and the Unseen
Consulting Producer
A magic realist fable about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic woman - a real life Lorax who speaks on behalf of nature under threat.
Amazing Grace
Executive Producer
Un documental detrás de escena sobre la grabación del álbum más vendido de Aretha Franklin finalmente ve la luz más de cuatro décadas después de la filmación del metraje original.
My Country No More
Executive Producer
Following the rise and fall of the new American oil boom, My Country No More paints an intimate portrait of a rural community in crisis, forced to confront the meaning of progress as they fight for a disappearing way of life.
La Generación de Marte
Executive Producer
Documental que analiza el impacto de la posible llegada al planeta rojo a través de entrevistas a expertos y adolescentes que desean viajar a Marte.
Holy Hell
Producer
An inside look at a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.
La bruja
Executive Producer
Nueva Inglaterra en el año 1630. Una familia de colonos cristiana, formada por un matrimonio y sus cinco hijos, vive cerca de un bosque que, según las creencias populares, está controlado por un mal sobrenatural. Cuando su hijo recién nacido desaparece y los cultivos no crecen, los miembros de la familia se rebelan los unos contra los otros. Más allá de sus peores temores, un mal sobrenatural les acecha en el bosque cercano.
Figure Studies
Producer
A series of figure studies using high-speed HD video, and inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey.
Magic Trip
Producer
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
Producer
Journalist Lawrence Wright brings his multilayered one-man play to the screen as he discusses how a reporter remains objective while covering highly charged issues such as 9/11, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's past and the history of Islam. Wright examines the Muslim religion, Al-Qaeda's rise to power and bin Laden's complicated relationship with the rulers of Saudi Arabia in this riveting documentary from Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney.
Gonzo: Vida y hazañas del Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Production Executive
Gibney, de la mano de un narrador de excepción, el actor Johnny Depp, nos invita a un extraordinario viaje a la extraña y salvaje vida del Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, creador del periodismo Gonzo y autor de la célebre “Miedo y Asco en Las Vegas”. Un documental brutalmente entretenido que retrata los momentos más decisivos en la vida de Thompson, desde su rebelde juventud, sus primeros trabajos como periodista, la turbulenta relación que le unió a los Ángeles del Infierno, su infructuosa candidatura a Sheriff de Aspen o su notoria implicación en la campaña presidencial de 1972. Todo ello narrado por las personas más importantes en la vida de ese rebelde con causa que fue Hunter Stockton Thompson.
La historia interminable II: El siguiente capítulo
kindliche Kaiserin
Continuación de las aventuras del joven Bastian Bux. En esta ocasión Bastian, agobiado por su situación en su vida real, recurre de nuevo al libro mágico.
Zelly and Me
Phoebe
A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her French nanny seeks out the help of a rich suitor to take her and the orphan away when she realizes that the grandmother cannot offer the orphan the love that she needs.