Alex Stapleton was born in Texas and established herself as a columnist for the magazines Flaunt, Tokion, and The New Cinema. She worked as an assistant on the shooting of The Guru (2002, dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer) and The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004, dir. Niels Mueller). In 2005 she produced the feature-length TV documentary Just for Kicks (2005, dir. Lisa Leone, Thibaut de Longeville), which saw its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The idea for her writer-director debut, Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011), came after she interviewed Corman for an article in 2006.
46. IFF Karlovy Vary
