Sacha Gervasi

Sacha Gervasi
Gervasi during the filming of Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Born	Alexander Sacha Simon Gervasi 1966 (age 50–51) London, England, UK
Education	Westminster School King's College London
Occupation	Screenwriter, director
Spouse(s)	Jessica de Rothschild (m. 2010)
Partner(s)	Geri Halliwell
Children	1
Awards	Emmy Awards - Outstanding Arts and Cultural Programming "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" Independent Spirit Awards - Best Documentary Feature "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" Independent Spirit's "Truer than Fiction" Award (Nominated) 2008 Anvil! The Story of Anvil Los Angeles Film Festival – Audience Award Best Documentary Feature 2008 Anvil! The Story of Anvil Sydney Film Festival -Audience Award Best Documentary Feature 2008 Anvil! The Story of Anvil Galway Film Fleadh – Best Documentary 2008 Anvil! The Story of Anvil Chicago International Film Festival – Silver Hugo: Docufest 2008 Anvil! The Story of Anvil Calgary International Film Festival – Best Documentary 2008 Anvil! The Story of Anvil Edmonton International Film Festival – Best Documentary Feature 2008 Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Alexander Sacha Simon Gervasi (born 1966) is a British journalist, screenwriter and Independent Spirit Award- and Emmy Award-winning director.

Gervasi was born in London. His mother, Milli Kasoy, was Canadian. His father, Sean Gervasi, who was American, was an economic advisor to John F. Kennedy in the White House, an expert in Yugoslav affairs, and taught economics at Oxford, the LSE and the University of Paris at Vincennes. His uncle, Tom Gervasi, was an expert on intelligence matters and author of the Myth of Soviet Military Supremacy and the Arsenal of Democracy series.

Gervasi was educated at Westminster School, and then read modern history at King's College London. As a teenager in 1981, Gervasi befriended Canadian metal band Anvil when they toured London and became a roadie for the band on three tours, eventually becoming close friends until a falling out in 1986. He was also an original member of alternative rock group Bush.

Gervasi's first position was to work for the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Ted Hughes at the Arvon Writing Foundation, founded by two young poets, John Fairfax and John Moat, in 1968. After completing his degree, he subsequently worked for John Calder of the Samuel Beckett archive helping to arrange a vast sale of Beckett's personal papers at Sotheby's in 1989, including Beckett's own annotated version of Waiting for Godot which sold to Trinity College, Dublin.

Gervasi moved to Los Angeles in 1995 to attend the graduate screen-writing programme at UCLA Film School, where he twice won the BAFTA/LA scholarship. While in the programme, he supported himself by working as a journalist, writing for newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times, The Observer, and Punch.