Alexandria Bombach

Alexandria Bombach is an American filmmaker.

Career

Bombach is from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She graduated from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. In 2009, she founded the production company, Red Reel. Her first film, 23 Feet (2011), "captures people doing what they love outside," and raised $9,785 on Kickstarter. In 2012, she produced and directed the documentary film series MoveShake, a "look into the complicated lives of people who have set out to make a positive environmental or social impact." Her first feature documentary, Frame by Frame, co-directed with Mo Scarpelli, premiered at SXSW in 2015. Also in 2015, Bombach released an 18-minute documentary entitled Common Ground, which dealt with disputes over unprotected public land in Montana. In 2016, Bombach received Pulitzer Center support for The New York Times "op-doc" Afghanistan by Choice, which, like Frame by Frame, was filmed in Afghanistan.

In 2018, Bombach premiered her documentary On Her Shoulders, about Yazidi genocide survivor and activist Nadia Murad, at the Sundance Film Festival. On Her Shoulders won the festival's award for Best Directing of a U.S. Documentary. The same year, Bombach signed with United Talent Agency.