About
Alexis Krasilovsky wrote and directed the award-winning feature documentaries, "Women Behind the Camera," about the challenges and visions of camerawomen in Hollywood, Bollywood and beyond (http://womenbehindthecamera.com) and "Let Them Eat Cake" (http://LetThemEatCakeFilm.com). Krasilovsky is co-author of the book "Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World" (Intellect/U. Chicago Press, 2015) and author of "Women Behind the Camera: Conversations with Camerawomen" (Praeger). Her narrative film, "Blood", was reviewed in the "L.A. Times" as “‘in its stream-of-consciousness way, more powerful than Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver.’” Krasilovsky is an active member of the Writers Guild of America/west and Professor of Screenwriting and Media Theory in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts, California State University, Northridge. She is currently writing a book on screenplay adaptation for Routledge and completing an audiobook of her novel. Stay tuned! (http://alexiskrasilovsky.com)
Featured Work
"Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World" by Harriet Margolis, Alexis Krasilovsky and Julia Stein
“You have to reach deep inside, because what you’re showing is bigger
than anything. It’s documenting history. It’s changing the world.”
-- Heather MacKenzie
"Shooting Women: Behind the Camera and Changing the World" explores the stories and visions of camerawomen in Hollywood and Bollywood, Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, China, England, France, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Senegal, the U.S. and other countries. Our interviews include top female Directors of Photography, such as Ellen Kuras, ASC (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), Akiko Ashizawa, JSC (Japan), Joan Hutton, CSC (Canada), Vijayalakshmi (India), Jan Kenny, ACS (Australia), and the men and women who have been supportive of their struggles. From video journalists risking their lives in war zones, to feature DP’s hanging out of helicopters to get the perfect shot….to pioneers like African-American camerawoman Jessie Maple Patton--who had to sue the union and television networks to get a job… From secret films by camerawomen of the Taliban beating Afghani women, to historic footage by China’s first camerawomen of Mao’s travels through the Chinese countryside…to rural India, where subsistence-level women are taught camerawork as a means of empowerment…to the young Senegalese camerawoman willing to climb onto a man’s shoulders—literally—to get her subject, "Shooting Women" shows us a world of beauty, courage and technical skill.
