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Director/Producer Alexandra Juhasz has made over 15 documentaries on feminist and lesbian issues from AIDS, to women's films, to teen pregnancy, including the features Video Remains (2005), Dear Gabe (2002) and Women of Vision (1998), as well as producing the acclaimed narrative feature, The Watermelon Woman (1996). Her work has screened at the Sundance and Toronto Intl. Film Festivals, and women's, and gay and lesbian film festivals around the world. She is a Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College and the author of critical writing about alternative media.

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WordPress Blog
http://aljean.wordpress.com

YouTube Class
www.youtube.com/mediapraxisme

Selected Films & Videos


SCALE: Ending the Bush Agenda in the Media Age
Digital video. 90 mins. Producer/Director. In post-production.
In a time of illicit war, unchecked corporate greed, and a presidential regime that supports such indecencies, two sisters take the media into their own hands seeking change. Antonia writes a potential anti-Bush bestseller for a mainstream publisher and goes on a corporate book tour. Alex documents her sister’s “scale-shift,” following Antonia’s ups and downs on the road. Divisions and connections between the sisters mirror those within the left itself, as the sisters experience the power of individual action, media attention, and grassroots movements for social justice.

HERE ARE YOUR ORDERS: Help Stop the Economic Invasion of Iraq
Digital video. 15 mins. Producer/Director. In production, Spring 2006.
This short video illustrates a lecture given by Antonia Juhasz on the third anniversary of the Iraq War. Juhasz explains the careful economic and political re-structuring of Iraq through the 100 Bremer Orders put into place during and after the occupation by L. Paul Bremer, as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority.

Video Remains
Digital video. 54 mins. Producer/Writer/Director. 2005.
Remembers and mourns the AIDS deaths and activism of the 1980s through one long-take interview of a dying friend.

DEAR GABE:
Digital video. 50 mins. Producer/Writer/Director. 2003.
6 college friends, feminists all, make diverse choices about creating and raising family.

NAMING PRAIRIE:
Beta-SP. 6 mins. Producer/Writer/Director. Sundance, 2002, official selection.
Queer Fests (NY, LA, SF, Toronto). Jewish Film Festivals (San Francisco).
A lesbian couple celebrates their daughter & family with a Jewish babynaming ceremony.

RELEASED: 5 SHORT VIDEOS ABOUT WOMEN AND PRISON:
27:30 minutes. Digital Video. Producer. 2001.
Women in the Director’s Chair, Queer Fests (NY, LA, SF, Toronto), Prison Fests.
6 media artists collaborate with women prisoners to represent new visions of this crisis.

WOMEN OF VISION:
82:40; 3 part television documentary series. BETA SP.
Distributed by Cinema Guild.
Interviews eighteen scholars, makers, distributors and critics involved in this history.
Screened at Creteil Women's Festival; New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Festivals; college campuses. Airs on Free Speech TV. (freespeechtv.org).

BAD BOSSES GO TO HELL:
1997. 7 mins. 16mm Narrative Short. Producer for Killer Films.
Palm Springs & Hamptons Short Fests, IFFM. Airs on: PBS, IFC, atomfilms.com.

THE WATERMELON WOMAN:
1996. 16mm Feature Narrative. Producer. Toronto Intl. Awards: Teddy Bear, Berlin;
Audience Awards at Creteil, Torino, LA Gay & Lesbian Fests, Hong Kong.
1997 Whitney Biennial. Theatrically released, airs on Sundance and BET.

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