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Alexandra Johnes

Alexandra Johnes

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Biography

Alexandra Johnes (born December 3, 1976) is an American documentary film producer and former actress. Johnes graduated with a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). From 2007 through 2012, Johnes ran Jigsaw Productions for Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney, managing aspects of development and production. In 2012, Johnes received a Transatlantic Partnership (TAP) Producing Fellowship [6] from the Independent Filmmaker Project,. Johnes leads the production company Special Projects. Johnes' sister Stephanie also works in film. Stephanie directed and filmed the 2007 documentary Doubletime, on which Alexandra worked as a Producer.

Known For

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8.1

Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1997
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
7.8

On her sixteenth birthday, Sabrina Spellman discovers she has magical powers. She lives with her 600-year-old aunts Hilda and Zelda as well as talking cat Salem in the fictional town of Westbridge, Massachusetts.

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

1996
The Witch
7.0

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

The Witch

2016
The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
5.8

Once again, Bastian is transported to the world of Fantasia which he recently managed to save from destruction. However, the land is now being destroyed by an evil sorceress, Xayide, so he must join up with Atreyu and face the Emptiness once more.

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter

1990
Frida
6.7

An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.

Frida

2024
Amazing Grace
7.1

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the recording of Aretha Franklin's best-selling album finally sees the light of day more than four decades after the original footage was shot.

Amazing Grace

2018
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
7.3

Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all way to the Vatican.

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

2012
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
6.9

Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

2008
The Territory
6.8

The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people have seen their population dwindle and their culture threatened since coming into contact with non-Native Brazilians. Though promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, they have faced illegal incursions from environmentally destructive logging and mining, and, most recently, land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians like President Jair Bolsonaro. With deforestation escalating as a result, the stakes have become global.

The Territory

2022
The Square
7.6

The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.

The Square

2013
The Mars Generation
6.5

Aspiring teenage astronauts reveal that a journey to Mars is closer than you think.

The Mars Generation

2017
Zelly & Me
5.8

A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her French nanny seeks out the help of a rich suitor to take her and the orphan away when she realizes that the grandmother cannot offer the orphan the love that she needs.

Zelly & Me

1988
The Seer and the Unseen
7.7

A magic realist fable about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic woman - a real life Lorax who speaks on behalf of nature under threat.

The Seer and the Unseen

2019
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
7.1

A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies.

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

2010
Holy Hell
6.6

An inside look at a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.

Holy Hell

2016
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
6.9

A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place

2011
Maya and the Wave
8.0

After a brush with death, Maya Gabeira makes history in the male-dominated world of big wave surfing.

Maya and the Wave

2024
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
5.5

Journalist Lawrence Wright brings his multilayered one-man play to the screen as he discusses how a reporter remains objective while covering highly charged issues such as 9/11, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's past and the history of Islam. Wright examines the Muslim religion, Al-Qaeda's rise to power and bin Laden's complicated relationship with the rulers of Saudi Arabia in this riveting documentary from Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney.

My Trip to Al-Qaeda

2010
Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down
8.5

The extraordinary story of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords: her relentless fight to recover following an assassination attempt in 2011, and her new life as one of the most effective activists in the battle against gun violence.

Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down

2022
Figure Studies
N/A

A series of figure studies using high-speed HD video, and inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey.

Figure Studies

2012