Alex Morelli
Directing
Known For

This inspiring documentary chronicles the extraordinary life of Ruby Duncan, an activist who fights the welfare system and becomes a White House advisor.
Storming Caesars Palace

Though he is long gone, buried on the Greek island he left behind as a teenager, John remains a painful mystery to his former wife, children, and grandson. On rediscovering his home movies, they begin to reconcile the troubled man they knew with the person he might have been. A film about memory, loss, and being caught between two homes.
The Island Man

A refugee's dinner routine is transformed when she begins to hear the voices of those she has lost. Based on a short story by Syrian writer Jehan Sayed Issa.
The Dead Die Once

As the US ramps up border enforcement during summer 2019, a formerly undocumented activist prepares for her naturalization test. In impressionistic scenes that link North Carolina with the Arizona borderlands, the film playfully interrogates the paradoxes of citizenship.
Becoming

The fate of the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke has preoccupied historians, archeologists, and writers for centuries—many obsessed with recovering a white European origin story that predates Plymouth and Jamestown. In the age of YouTube conspiracy theories, it has never been easier to participate in American myth-building.
Truth or Dare

Something is awry with Greece’s COVID-19 tourism ads—is it the virus itself? Or is the invitation to #visitgreece not as open as it seems? With a little help from datamoshing, the ads begin to offer glimpses of new anti-migrant measures and reveal the contradictions of travel.
ALL YOU WANT IS GREECE

During a trip to Italy, a relationship falters. An autofictional travelogue unearthed from neorealist landscapes.