Alexis Alexanian has over twenty years of industry experience as a producer and consultant to major industry players. She is currently President of Production at LOCOMOTIVE, a film, television and financing company founded by Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Alexandra Kerry. In 2015, LOCOMOTIVE financed and Executive Produced, Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan, released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics, starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore. Alexanian is currently in post production on the Locomotive developed feature film, LOOK AWAY, directed by UK duo Monty Whitebloom and Andy Delaney, starring Chloë Sevigny, Aidan Turner, Ben Walker, Matthew Broderick and newcomer Shannon Tarbet.

Alexanian’s career in production began on big-budget studio films, including Mississippi Burning, Bonfire of the Vanities, A League of Their Own, and Striptease. In 1999, Alexanian partnered with Gary Winick to establish the groundbreaking digital film initiative, InDigEnt, financed by IFC. At InDigEnt, Alexanian produced nine ultra-low budget digital features in four years, including Sundance favorites Tadpole (Miramar) directed by Winick, Pieces of April (UA) directed by Peter Hedges, Personal Velocity (UA) directed by Rebecca Miller, Tape (LGE) directed by Rick Linklater and Ethan Hawke’s directorial debut and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection Chelsea Walls. Alexis won the John Cassevetes Independent Spirit Award for Personal Velocity and Variety named her one of 2002’s 10 PRODUCERS TO WATCH. Under her banner, Elixir Films, she went on to produce the international TV series Long Way Round (SKY-UK, BRAVO-US) featuring Ewan McGregor, and the Ethan Hawke helmed film, The Hottest State (ThinkFilm). As a consultant, Alexanian is often called upon by the completion bond company, Film Finances, to trouble-shoot on big-budget features struggling with creative and financial challenges.

For the past four years, Alexanian has served as the President of the Board of Directors for New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), NY’s pre-eminent two-thousand-member professional association serving women in media. She is also a frequent collaborator with the Tribeca Film Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film Programs.

Alexanian is a graduate of Northwestern University.