Alexandra Leinweber (Alley), Director

Alley is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker spending her time between her two favorite places: the North Fork and Brooklyn. Her work explores our relationship to a changing environment and the extraordinary stories behind every day ventures. She is a driven and resourceful producer, whose projects include the Making Modern series for Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

An investigator at heart, she holds a BA in Journalism from Temple University and an MFA in directing from CUNY’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. Alley also has a background in theater, with a keen eye for casting and a passion for talking with strangers.

In the pandemic Alley partnered with Tribeca Film Institute and C.A.S.T to produce Sound Side Film Festival, the first independent drive-in film festival on the North Fork.

Although Alley largely focuses on documentary with the team at Love Lane Pictures, her fiction film BLUEPOINT featuring oyster farmers in Southold, was nominated for a National Board of Review Award and traveled the world in International Ocean’s Film Festival. Alley assisted for Martin Scorsese and was a Ford Foundation fellow, where she created IRL, a video series featuring female artists for the 2017 Women's March.

Alley credits her grandma Donna Rubens, a life-long painter in East Marion, as her greatest influence. She taught Alley to follow her bliss and approach storytelling with curiosity and empathy.