Social Innovation Associate Producer and Editor
Alexandra Siambekos is an award-winning filmmaker and 2023 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, currently working at Herizon Productions. She is a 2023 Newhouse Scholar and a 2024 and 2025 Semi-Finalist for a Fulbright Creative Arts Award in Greece.
Her 2020 fellowship at docutribe allowed her to highlight vulnerable communities impacted during COVID-19 and empower young girls to leverage filmmaking as a tool for social change. This experience sparked her interest in documentary production and was incredibly formative in her filmmaking career. After working with docutribe, Alexandra is an honorary alumni fellow and occasional freelancer for docutribe.
Her most recent documentary film, The Keepers of Manari, won Best Short Documentary at the Greek International Film Festival Tour of Canada, Best International Documentary Short at the 11th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra, and Best First Time Director (Documentary) at the Berlin Indie Film Festival. The film was also recognized as Best Honors Professional Thesis and received the Orlin Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis of 2023 from the Syracuse University Honors Program. To learn more about her work, you can visit her website HERE.
Siambekos was a summer 2022 Television Academy Foundation Documentary Production Intern. During her internship, she had the honor to work on the Oscar shortlisted and Emmy Award winning film The Flagmakers (NatGeo/Disney+), the short documentary Parker (The New Yorker), and the docuseries Let Us Prey (Max).
Professional Updates:
For about two years, Alexandra has worked full-time for the Emmy Award winning, female-empowered production company Herizon Productions!
9/26/24: She will also present and serve as an advisor in our Ukraine Filmmaking class when we start up the 2nd cohort class sessions in January 2025.