Alexandra Pechman is a writer and director living in Los Angeles.
She has written film projects for Amazon Studios, New Line, Bad Robot, and Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries, and is currently developing her first feature as writer-director with Killer Films and 2AM. She wrote the psychological thriller Tentacles, produced by Blumhouse TV for Hulu’s “Into the Dark” film series, and has written for the cult anthology series Channel Zero on Syfy.
As a director, her debut short film, Thumb, premiered at Fantasia Film Festival and was an official competition selection at the Oscar-qualifying Sitges Film Festival and Chicago International Film Festival, among many others around the world. Her short film Sleep was named a Funding Grantee from The Future of Film is Female and premiered at the Museum of Modern Art.
Previously as a magazine writer, she published her writing in Vogue, the New York Times, Artforum, Vanity Fair, and many other magazines, and worked for publications such as the Paris Review, Aperture, and W magazine. She graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with honors.