Alexandria Bombach (they/them) is an award-winning director, producer, cinematographer, editor, and story consultant known for character-driven documentaries that capture human stories with empathy and depth. Their latest film, It’s Only Life After All, opened the 2023 Sundance Film Festival with an intimate portrait of the Indigo Girls’ forty years of music, friendship, and activism.

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Bombach’s debut feature, Frame by Frame (2015), about Afghan photojournalists, premiered at SXSW and went on to win over 25 festival awards. Their 2018 documentary, On Her Shoulders, following Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, premiered at Sundance, where Bombach received the U.S. Documentary Directing Award. The film was shortlisted for the Academy Award, nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, and recognized with both the Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize and a duPont-Columbia Award.

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Most recently, Bombach served as Executive Producer and Editor of There Was, There Was Not (2024), directed by Emily Mkrtichian, which chronicles the lives of four women in Artsakh amid war and displacement.

 

Alongside developing their next feature, Bombach frequently collaborates as a story consultant, working with new and seasoned filmmakers to shape narratives with clarity and integrity. They currently reside in the high desert of their hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico where they serve on the advisory board of the Santa Fe International Film Festival.