Alexandra Kerry
| Alexandra Kerry | |
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| Born |
Alexandra Forbes Kerry September 5, 1973 Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | B.A., M.F.A |
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| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Spouse(s) | Julien Dobbs-Higginson |
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Alexandra Forbes Kerry (born September 5, 1973) is an American filmmaker. She is a partner at Locomotive Films and co-founder of Fictional Pictures, a film production company based in New York and Los Angeles. She is married to contemporary art curator Julien Dobbs-Higginson
Alexandra Forbes Kerry was born in Concord, Massachusetts. She is the elder daughter of politician John Forbes Kerry (born 1943) and writer Julia Stimson Thorne (1944–2006). Her sister Vanessa (born 1976) is a doctor.
Kerry graduated from the Milton Academy and then attended Brown University where she studied anthropology and modern culture and media. In 2004 she graduated with an MFA in directing from the AFI Conservatory's two-year masters filmmaker program.
Kerry's short film The Last Full Measure premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and earned her top honors at the Austin Film Festival. The film also earned her the "Director of the Year" award from American Film Institute. The film was in collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
She is a co-producer of the 2008 documentary film Be Like Others. Kerry has also had several roles in television and in film. She has appeared in two David Mamet films, State and Main in 2000 and Spartan in 2004.
As a television director, she has directed the commercial, including the pilot and first season of MTV's The Hills - and the pilot for the 2002 film The Forest. She has also co-produced several documentaries including the award winning Be Like Others for HBO, and has won two Silver Tellies for producing and directing on an online ad campaign for Allstate Insurance.
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