Alexandra Henry is an award-winning filmmaker with more than 15 years of international experience in commercial production and branded entertainment. In 2021 her first feature-length documentary, Street Heroines, won the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the Portland Film Festival. In 2019 she was selected for SHOOT Magazine's New Directors Showcase and nominated as a finalist for the STARZ & The Wrap Women’s ‘Telling Our Stories’ film competition. Alexandra has been recognized as a CurateNYC Emerging Artist for her body of photographic work that explores the human experience through architecture and graffiti in densely populated urban environments. Her photographs and films have been exhibited around the world and at prestigious institutions such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. in Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA and speaks Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Italian. Based in New York City, she was born in Alexandria, Virginia and raised near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
