Alexa-Sascha Lewin
Alexa-Sascha Lewin began her career in narrative features, interning for Robert Redford’s South Fork Pictures and Propaganda Films, until she jumped on board a theatrical feature documentary filming the most beautiful landscapes in the world. After taking a break to backpack solo around the world (48 countries explored to date), Alexa-Sascha returned to the biz, working in television and documentaries for PBS, ABC/Kane, Discovery Channel, A&E, and the BBC. She spent eight years working as a natural history filmmaker under the auspices of Masaba Pictures, collaborating closely with the United Nations Environment Program and others, where her work found her trekking mountain gorillas through rebel-infested Rwandan jungles and hanging out of a helicopter to capture stampeding white rhinos in the South African bush. Alexa-Sascha began her transition back to narrative features, partnering with the Mount Film Company and working in Lithuania on Ed Zwick’s Defiance. In 2008, Alexa-Sascha was one of eight women selected to AFI's Directing Workshop for Women, where she made The Honeysting. Alexa-Sascha was awarded the Panavision New Filmmaker grant, as well as, the Animal Content in Entertainment (ACE) grant for $10,000 through the Humane Society of the United States. Recognized as a "talented, up and coming director," she was invited by the co-showrunner of CSI to shadow producing director Ken Fink on his 50th episode of CSI from prep through post. More recently, she shadowed director Michael Nankin on the season/series finale of Trauma, where she was invited to direct a scene. Alexa-Sascha holds a B.A. from Wheaton College (cum laude in German and Film) and studied film at the University of Television and Film Munich and Brown University.
