Alexis Krasilovsky

Alexis Krasilovsky, an award-winning filmmaker of the global documentaries Let Them Eat Cake and Women Behind the Camera, was born in Alaska, survived sexual assault at gunpoint, and has traveled to twenty countries. Her first film, made while an undergraduate at Yale, was End of the Art World, featuring Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. Her forthcoming novel, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman, fictionalizes the making of this documentary as well as other films and videos.

Krasilovsky is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her pandemic poetry film, The Parking Lot of Dreams, adapts poems from her book, Watermelon Linguistics: New and Selected Poems. Krasilovsky is also the author of Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling and Women Behind the Camera, and co-author of Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World.

She is a Professor Emerita of Screenwriting, California State University Northridge. She lives in Los Angeles, where she dyes her hair purple and blue.