77 (English) Supporting Talented Emerging and Established Female Filmmakers with Alexa Polar
Alexa Polar is a writer, a director, and the founder of Female Filmmakers Fuse; a nonprofit that promotes diversity, equality, inclusion, and a safe workplace for women in the film and television industry.
Alexa recently wrote Marilyn Mexico, a feature-length biopic that focuses on Marilyn Monroe’s affinity for Mexican culture and her final trip to Mexico.
Alexa is set to director the currently entitled feature Fons Vivus, a screenplay she wrote about a group of diverse vigilante women who come together joining forces for a greater cause in a deeply flawed legal system. After which she we place her focus on R Culture, a feature drama that tackles the issues of rape culture in todays society.
Whenever Alexa is not working on writing, prepping for directing, or directing; she is advocating for social causes against systemic racism, an uneven scale of the patriarch, and supporting causes for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. She often assists with immigration cases as a paralegal.
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