Alex J. Bledsoe is a director, producer and multidisciplinary artist whose work illuminates daily life on the frontlines of racial capitalism, and the portals we create for our physical and psychospiritual liberation. Alex’s debut documentary feature, OAKLEAD (in post-production), investigates lead poisoning and environmental racism in the Bay Area, and follows nearly a decade of community organizing. OAKLEAD is supported by the Sundance Documentary Film Program, Berkeley Film Foundation, The Redford Center and the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and is the winner of the inaugural Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Elevate Award.
Alex is the co-founder of Breaktide, an all-women-of-color owned and operated film production company, which creates liberatory stories while practicing collaborative, decolonial filmmaking. Breaktide’s debut documentary feature, Standing Above the Clouds, directed by co-founder Jalena Keane-Lee, won the Hot Docs 2024 Bill Nemtin Award for Best Social Justice Documentary.
Alex produced the narrative feature, Residue, about gentrification in Washington, D.C., streaming on Netflix after premiering internationally at Venice International Film Festival. Alex has lived in and been deeply influenced by Black, Indigenous and Global Majority movements and communities from Rio de Janeiro to Oakland (Huichin) and London. Alex was born and raised in Minnesota (Mni Sóta Makoce), and earned her B.S. from Georgetown University with a degree in international politics, where she studied Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic.
