American filmmaker and educator
Alexis Krasilovsky is an American filmmaker, writer and professor. Krasilovsky's first film, "End of the Art World" documented artists including Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. Krasilovsky moved from New York to Los Angeles in the 1970s to pursue filmmaking, writing and directing through her company, Rafael Film. She is the writer and director of the documentary features, "Women Behind the Camera" and "Let Them Eat Cake".
Early life and education.
Krasilovsky is the daughter of children's book author Phyllis Krasilovsky and entertainment attorney William Krasilovsky. She grew up in Chappaqua, New York. After studying at Smith College and the University of Florence, she graduated with honors from Yale University and received her MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts.
Career.
Barbra Streisand who has said of Krasilovsky's 1984 documentary "Exile" "Such films do more than increase East-West understanding and reduce tensions; they also serve to emphasize that we are all essentially one people, which may be the best hope for our world." Alexis Krasilovsky's documentary "Beale Street" followed the last march of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee.
Krasilovsky's 2014 film "Let Them Eat Cake", contrasts the role of pastry from those who overindulge to people in Third World countries who have never consumed a pastry. The film documents the ingredients, creation of pastry, and the effects that pastry has—including obesity and diabetes—in several countries including Bangladesh, France, India, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Somalia, Turkey and the United States. The film has screened worldwide at several festivals, and includes music from Jenny Eloise Rieu, Ed Finney, Yasumi Miyazawa and Minoti Vaishnav.
In addition to several books, Krasilovsky is the author of several articles that have appeared in "Creative Screenwriting". She has also contributed chapters to the books "The Search for Reality: The Art of Documentary Filmmaking" (ed. Michael Tobias, Michael Wiese Productions, 1998) and "Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets" (ed. Carol Smallwood, McFarland, January 2012).
Krasilovsky is a member of the Writers Guild of America West. She is also a member of the Association of Women Directors, the International Documentary Association and Women in Film.
Personal life.
Alexis Krasilovsky lives in Los Angeles and is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Northridge, where she taught screenwriting and film studies.
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