: Biography :
Director/Producer Alexandra Juhasz has made more than 15 documentaries on feminist and lesbian issues from AIDS, to women's films, to teen pregnancy, including the features SCALE (2008), Video Remains (2005), Dear Gabe (2002) and Women of Vision (1998), as well as producing the acclaimed narrative features,  The Owls (2010), and The Watermelon Woman (1996). Her work has screened at the Sundance and Toronto International 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. View Naming Prairie, Dear Gabe, SCALE, and Women of Vision at snagfilms.com.
Videos & Films   |   Filmography   |   Resume
Interviews
	Designing Media: Interview with Alexandra Juhasz. One of 31 video segments by Bill Moggridge. To Teach, Write, and Learn on YouTube. Media scholar Alexandra Juhasz explores the social and political implications of video sharing on YouTube. Learning from YouTube: An interview with Alexandra Juhasz,  Confessions on an Aca-Fan,  February 20 and 22, 2008. "Fox and Friends" interviews Professor Alexandra Juhasz. September 28, 2007 KCET -- kcet.org/explore-ca/web-stories/age-of-aids Jump Cut -- www.ejumpcut.org Act Up Oral History -- www.actuporalhistory.org

Visit Alex online	PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces: www.youtube.com/PerpiTubeSpace WordPress Blog: aljean.wordpress.com Learning from YouTube www.mitpress.mit.edu/learningfromyoutube YouTube Class: youtube.com/mediapraxisme Radical Media Site: www.mediapraxis.org

Selected Films & Videos
	THE OWLS Digital Video, 70 mins. Producer. Released in 2010 Premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. Screened at these 2010 Festivals: Seoul, Tei-Pei, Torino, Seattle. Gay festival screenings: LA, NY, Toronto, Salt Lake City, San Francisco. Four aging lesbians accidentally kill a baby-dyke and live to suffer the consequences. SCALE: Measuring Might 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. VIEW IT at snagfilms.com, or on YouTube.com. Airs on www.freespeech.org Learn more, visit scalethedocumentary.com Purchase a copy of this video through TransitMedia.net 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. Purchase a copy of this video through TransitMedia.net DEAR GABE: Digital video. 50 mins. Producer/Writer/Director. 2003. 6 college friends, feminists all, make diverse choices about creating and raising family. VIEW IT at snagfilms.com 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. VIEW IT at snagfilms.com 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. Purchase a copy of this video through TransitMedia.net 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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