Rate My Professor Alexis Krasilovsky

Alexis Krasilovsky is Professor Emerita in the Screenwriting Option of the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Northridge, within the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication. Specializing in screenwriting and film studies in the Arts and Culture field, she studied film history at Yale University and earned an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts. She taught film production, screenwriting, and media theory and criticism at CSUN. Krasilovsky is an accomplished writer, director, and producer, heading her own production company, Rafael Film, LLC. Her documentaries include Women Behind the Camera (2007), which won four Best Documentary Feature awards and a Tribute Award for achievement in independent cinema from the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, and Let Them Eat Cake (2014), winner of Best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Paris Independent Film Festival and Special Jury Mention for Best Editing at the Sole Luna Film Festival. Other notable works are End of the Art World featuring Andy Warhol, Exile aired nationally on PBS, Epicenter U. chronicling the Northridge Earthquake's impact on CSUN, Beale Street, Blood, and What Memphis Needs. She pioneered techniques in motion picture holograms with Created and Consumed by Light (1975) and Childbirth Dream, exhibited at the Georges Pompidou Center.

Her key publications include Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling (Routledge, 2018), which earned 2nd Place in the 2019 International Writers Awards; co-authored Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World (Intellect Press, 2015); and contributions to Women Screenwriters: An International Guide (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015). She also authored the novel Sex and the Cyborg Goddess under the pseudonym Alexis Rafael, winner of the Irwin Award for Best #MeToo Novel of the Year, and earlier The New Cinematographers: Women Behind the Camera. A member of the Writers Guild of America West, Alliance of Women Directors, International Documentary Association, and Women in Film, Krasilovsky has received a lifetime achievement award from the Gdansk DocFilm Festival.