Alexandra Johnes

Alexandra Johnes

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

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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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The Territory
Executive Producer
The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people have seen their population dwindle and their culture threatened since coming into contact with non-Native Brazilians. Though promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, they have faced illegal incursions from environmentally destructive logging and mining, and, most recently, land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians like President Jair Bolsonaro. With deforestation escalating as a result, the stakes have become global.
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.
アメイジング・グレイス/アレサ・フランクリン
Executive Producer
“ソウルの女王”アレサ・フランクリンが1972年1月にロサンジェルスにあるニュー・テンプル・ミッショナリー・バプティスト教会で2日間にわたって行ったライブは、アルバム『Amazing Grace』として発表され、ゴスペル・アルバムの不朽の名盤として今なお多くの人々に愛されている。この伝説のライブはシドニー・ポラック監督によって撮影も行われ、ドキュメンタリー映画としても世に出るはずだった。しかし音と映像のシンクロという編集上の問題が発生し、未完のままお蔵入りとなってしまう。本作は、その後21世紀に入って技術的な問題がクリアされ、プロデューサーのアラン・エリオットがついに映画として完成させた音楽ドキュメンタリー。
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.
The Mars Generation
Executive Producer
Aspiring teenage astronauts reveal that a journey to Mars is closer than you think.
Holy Hell
Producer
An inside look at a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.
ウィッチ
Executive Producer
1630年、ニューイングランド。敬虔なキリスト教徒のウィリアムとキャサリンの夫婦と5人の子供たちは敬虔なキリスト教にのっとった生活を送るため、村はずれにある森の近くの荒地に引っ越してきた。しかしある日、5人の子供の1人赤ん坊のサムが何者かに連れ去られ、行方不明となってしまう。家族が悲しみに沈む中、ウィリアムは美しく成長した娘のトマシンが魔女ではないかとの疑いを抱く。それをきっかけにやがて一家全員が疑心暗鬼になり、次第に狂気の淵に沈んでいく。<魔女をテーマにしたホラー映画。24の映画祭に招待されていずれも絶賛を浴び、第31回サンダンス映画祭で監督賞を受賞したのを始め、数々の賞を受賞するなど高い評価を受けた。ロバート・エガースの初監督映画>
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: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Production Executive
Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.
ネバーエンディング・ストーリー 第2章
kindliche Kaiserin
人間の夢で作られた不思議な世界ファンタージェン。だが、今やそこは"無"を操る悪の女王ザイーダの侵略の危機にさらされていた。本の中から発せられる幼ごころの君の悲鳴!その助けを求める声に導かれるようにファンタージェンへ戻った少年バスチアンは、戦士アトレーユと再会。ファンタージェンを救うべく彼は今、新たな冒険の旅へ出る!"思い出マシン"により、願いごとをするたびに思い出を失っていくバスチアン。その彼が悪との戦いの最後に願ったものは?
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.