Alexandra Blaney
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Alexandra Blaney
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Alexandra Blaney is Co-CEO and Creative Director of Shine Global, where she leads content development and impact storytelling to advance children’s rights worldwide. Since joining Shine Global in 2009, she has helped shape the organization’s creative vision and produced award-winning films and campaigns that raise awareness, drive action, and inspire change for children facing injustice.
Her credits include producing the Oscar®-nominated live-action short Anuja, The Business of Trouble, Through Our Eyes: Homefront with Sesame Workshop for HBO Max, Virtually Free about youth incarceration, and episodes of the Webby-nominated digital series The Election Effect. She has also executive produced the documentary From This Small Place about the Rohingya refugee crisis and Comedy Against the Odds, co-produced the Ariel Award–winning Home Is Somewhere Else, and served as associate producer on the Academy Award®–winning short documentary Inocente, among other films.
In addition to film production, Alexandra designs and implements impact campaigns in partnership with filmmakers, advocates, and communities around the world. She is also the creator and leader of Shine Global’s Resilience Awards Initiative, which honors and supports filmmakers whose work centers the strength, creativity, and resilience of children. She is a co-chair of the Documentary Producers Alliance Ethics Committee, and a member of the IDA and PGA. Alexandra graduated from Pomona College, where she studied International Relations and History.
Projects
Anuja
Oscar-nominated Live Action Short.
When a gifted 9-year-old girl, Anuja (Sajda Pathan), who works in a garment factory in Delhi, India is offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to attend school, she is forced to make a heart-wrenching decision that will determine her and her sister Palak’s (Ananya Shanbhag) fate.
Home Is Somewhere Else
This 2D feature “animentary” features three personal stories about immigrant youth to highlight the complexities and challenges they face today. Voiced by the actual children and their families, the stories are woven together by spoken word poet Lalo “El Deportee”, the film’s host and MC whose vibrant “Spanglish” breaks codes, switches standards, and pushes the viewer to decipher his poems. Each story has its own unique visual animation style drawn by three different teams. The animation allows us to truly see and feel these characters’ worst nightmares, alongside their colorful hopes and dreams for a better future.
Homefront
In HOMEFRONT, three children of veteran families cope with the emotional impact of having a wounded parent, navigate the unique challenges of visible and invisible injuries sustained during military service, and together journey toward collective healing.
From This Small Place
A six-year-old boy named Hossain grows up in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh as the Rohingya refugee crisis becomes increasingly dangerous.
