Alexander Carson
Photo credit: Ame Henderson
Alexander (Sandy) Carson is a Canadian filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of collective practice and personal storytelling. He is on faculty at Yorkville University's Bachelor of Creative Arts program and has previously taught at Toronto Film School. Carson’s films have screened at events such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Reykjavik International Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, where he received the Golden Gate Award for New Visions in 2014. His critically acclaimed first feature film as writer/director, O, Brazen Age, was released in 2015, and he is currently in post-production on a new feature film, Alberta Number One, with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and Telefilm Canada. Carson's recent book chapter, "Quarantine Cinema: Teaching Film Directing during COVID-19" is collected in the anthology Teaching in the Post COVID-19 Era: World Education Dilemmas, Teaching Innovations and Solutions in the Age of Crisis (Springer, 2021).
Alexander Carson is a graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University (BFA, MA) in Montreal, and is currently pursuing his MFA in Creative Practice at Transart Institute, Liverpool John Moores University (UK). He is a founding member of the North Country Cinema media arts collective in Calgary, Alberta, and currently lives with his partner and two sons in Toronto.
MFA 2023