Alejandra Vasquez is a Mexican-American director and producer. Her directorial feature-length debut, co-directed with Sam Osborn, Going Varsity in Mariachi premiered at Sundance 2023 and won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award for the U.S. Documentary Competition. Alejandra’s short works include “Folk Frontera,” also co-directed with Sam, a surrealist film about the exchange of culture and music in the borderlands of Far West Texas that had a broadcast premiere in the PBS special The Latino Experience, won the SXSW Jury Award for Texas Shorts, and is taught in San Diego public schools. Her latest short about the boom-and-bust oil cycles in her rural Texas hometown, “When It’s Good, It’s Good,” a co-production with Latino Public Broadcasting, screened at New Orleans Film Festival and BAMcinemaFest.
She cut her teeth on the producing side as part of the teams behind the acclaimed features Matangi/Maya/M.IA. (2018), Us Kids (2020), and Plan C (2023). She was also the series producer for the Topic digital series “Night Shift” and “Eating.”
Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, SFFILM, ITVS, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and more. Fellowships and residencies include the Logan Nonfiction Fellowship, Film Independent Docuseries Intensive, IF/Then South Shorts, and the Catapult Research Program. Alex and Sam founded Masa Films where they are developing their next feature about the green card lottery.
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