About
Alex Curran-Cardarelli is a TV, audio, film, and event producer; writer and an amateur photographer.
After graduating from Denison University with a B.A. in English with a focus on creative writing and a minor in art history, Alex lived in Lao PDR working at the Luang Prabang Film Festival. Starting as Festival Coordinator and then Managing Director, she produced a series of screenings, networking events, workshops, and artist development programs. She then worked as an Industry Coordinator for the 2021 Tribeca Festival, and as the Summit Project Manager for The Peace Studio. Since 2021, she’s worked for America’s Test Kitchen as an Associate Producer for their two flagship TV shows, America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country, and for their podcast Proof.
Alex is also the producer of the anthology film MEKONG 2030 (2020), a collection of short narrative films that envision the future of the Mekong River from five different national and cultural perspectives. The film has screened at over 30 international events, including the Tokyo International Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, and Hawaii International Film Festival. The Vietnamese short, “The Unseen River,” screened at Locarno Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival.
She has written for CityScene Media Group and U.S. Figure Skating, and has been published in Z Publishing House’s Ohio’s Best Emerging Poets and Denison University’s literary magazine, the Exile.
In her spare time, Alex also enjoys photographing different wall landscapes from across the globe and curating them on her Instagram account CC Photography.
Press
Post-Screening Interview with Alex Curran-Cardarelli, Producer of the Mekong 2030 Film Project
East Asian Studies Center Guest Speaker Series: Alex Curran-Cardarelli and Brian Bernards
Alex Curran-Cardarelli, is the former festival manager and managing director of the Luang Prabang Film Festival. In 2020, she helped organize the production of Mekong 2030, an omnibus film (93 minutes) of five speculative shorts from directors from the five mainland Southeast Asian countries bordering the Mekong River.
— University of Southern California
Celebrating Stories on Film:
Luang Prabang Film Festival
In this week’s Radio Ock Pop Tok broadcast, we discuss stories, film and the Luang Prabang Film Festival (LPFF) with Executive Director Sean Chadwell, and Festival Manager Alex Curran-Cardarelli. LPFF brings together the boldest storytellers and the most talked about films in the ten SEA countries and screens them the first weekend in December every year in Luang Prabang. And, it’s the only film festival that committed to telling the region’s stories by local filmmakers.
— Radio Ock Pop Tok
Region’s filmmakers offer their visions of the Mekong river in 2030
With this broad appeal Pham found internal recognition. Curran-Cardarelli believes that storytellers are the ideal people to spread the Mekong’s message, and with 1,500 people watching “The Unseen River” between the 5-15 August at the festival in Locarno, she could be right… “It’s our hope that viewers will understand that any impact on the river flows downward,” said Curran-Cardarelli. “Causing literal ripple effects along the way.”
– Southeast Asia Globe
Conversation with Filmmakers: Making Films in a Time of Crises
A conversation between film scholars and filmmakers, join us discuss stories of inhospitality in selected films shown in this series. Listen and ask questions about the filmmakers’ experiences of producing and making films in this new world of growing inhospitality, and glimpses of hopes for a better future.
Panel Speakers: Alex Curran-Cardarelli, producer of Mekong 2030 / Festival manager of Luang Prabang Festival
– Asian Film Archive
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