ALEXIS KRASILOVSKY is the author of Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling (Routledge: 2nd Place Winner – 2019 International Writers Awards).
She also wrote the books Watermelon Linguistics: New and Selected Poems (Cyberwit)– finalist, 2022 International Book Awards) and Women Behind the Camera (Praeger), and co-wrote Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World (Intellect/U. Chicago Press). As a filmmaker, she wrote and directed the documentary features Let Them Eat Cake (a global film about pastries available on Amazon Video Prime) and Women Behind the Camera – winners of five Best Documentary awards, and co-directed the documentary Beale Street, where Martin Luther King, Jr. last marched.
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Krasilovsky holds a degree from Yale University and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America and is Professor Emerita of Screenwriting at California State University, Northridge. She and her son live in Los Angeles.
She is the daughter of bestselling children's book author Phyllis Krasilovsky.
Visit Alexis at alexiskrasilovsky.com.
Having served as an American delegate at the "West Meets East" Producers' Conference at the Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh, it is my honor and privilege to join forces with Bangladeshi filmmaker Shameem Akhtar and folk artist Tiger Nazir to tell the story of the Bangladesh Liberation War through the eyes of a Bengal tiger. "Tuki the Tiger" aspires to the standards of the festival, whose motto is "Better Film, Better Audience, and Better Society," as well as introducing Southeast Asian stories of courage, resistance, survival and autonomy to children worldwide.
As the daughter of best-selling children's book author Phyllis Krasilovsky (1926-2014), I look forward to honoring my mother by creating a children's book and a film - "Tuki the Tiger" - that will celebrate both visual and verbal language and literacy.
