Alexis Krasilovsky, an award-winning filmmaker of the 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, was
End of the Art World, featuring Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
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 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 and lives in Los Angeles.
http://alexiskrasilovsky.com
