DIRECTING

Alex Webb was a recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Award. HIS first feature film, To The Flame, was nominated for Best Picture at the Madrid International Film Festival. It also won Best Screenplay and Best Ensemble Honorable Mention at the Queens World Film Festival, as well as a nomination for Best Actor for Mr. Webb. His film, Hove (The Wind) with Oscar-winner Olympia Dukakis, was an official selection at the Montreal, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Boston, Palm Beach and Cleveland International Film Festivals. His award-winning play, AMELIA, published by Samuel French, is set during the American Civil War and is being developed for the big screen. His short film "The Girl in 2C" received a Silver Medal at WorldFest - The Houston Int'l Film Festival. His script, "Welcome to L.A.", was awarded Honorable Mention in the Cinequest screenplay competition. As an actor, he has had the honor of working with Oscar winners Meryl Streep, Ben Affleck, Olympia Dukakis, Eli Wallach and Melissa Leo among others. 

Alex Webb Director’s Reel

"Perhaps the greatest strength of writer / director Alex Webb's HOVE (THE WIND) is its very simplicity. In its hushed and intimate look at the lives of two women, played by Shirleyann Kaladjian and Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis, whose lives are affected in different ways by the legacy of the Armenian genocide, it reminds us of something that is often far too easy to forget about the Armenian tragedy, the Holocaust, or any mass slaughter in history. The numbers, and the savagery, are so monumental, that it blinds us to one of the key things that makes these crimes so singular. The victims were ordinary, everyday people just like you and me. The Turks did not target and attempt to exterminate a group of 1.5 million warlords and mighty men. They were non-combatants. Shop owners, housewives, men and women of no grand distinction. Children. Babies. By fixing his gaze on two people of just this type, each of whom filters their memory of the atrocities through their own difficult experiences, Webb is able to bring this truth painfully home in ways that most films, that attempt to make their characters stand in for all the millions lost, aren't able to pull off. He reminds us that the tragedy is that we lost 1.5 million Armenians...and that we lost a worthy and worthwhile individual, 1.5 million times."

Matt R. Lohr, co-author of Dan O'Bannon's Guide to Screenplay Structure, film reviewer at The Movie Zombie, writer for Jazz Times