Alexander Kaluzhsky is a filmmaker born in Odessa, Ukraine. He studied filmmaking at S.V.A. and N.Y.U., and Theater at the Actor’s Center under the guidance of teachers from Juilliard, Yale, Harvard, and Tisch. Under his production company, Apropos Films, he has produced the features The Missing Person directed by Noah Buschel and starring Academy Award Nominees Michael Shannon and Amy Ryan. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He also produced the film, Weakness, which was written and directed by Michael Melamedoff and starred Bobby Cannavale, Josh Charles, and Lily Rabe, and premiered at the Austin Film Festival. As a writer and director he has made the following short films: Westbrook, I.Aria, Arkadya (a winner at Hammertonail.com’s Short Film Contest judged by Sundance’s Mike Plante), Beast of the Southern Wild with writer and director Benh Zeitlin; The Visitors, an experimental short form documentary for which he received the 2010 Blueprint Fellowship and was screened as part of CURRENTS 2013 at the Santa Fe Museum of Art, Bad Moon Rising, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and Apropos which played New Filmmakers New York. He has also edited the films Notes on Blue by Moyra Davey, which was commissioned by the Walker Art Center to commemorate Derek Jarman, Hemlock Forest for the Biennale de Montreal, and worked with filmmakers such as Bruce Weber and Ondi Timoner. He is the co-founder of Honey Ramka, an artist-run gallery space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, an active member of the Brooklyn Filmmaker’s Collective, and a professor of Cinema within the CUNY College System, and a visiting professor at institutions like Columbia University, The New School, and N.Y.U.