ALEXANDER JAMES HARVEY

Alexander Harvey is a British film director, writer on literature, culture, and cinema. His most recent film is a feature documentary on the great filmmaker Satyajit Ray, called Forest Of Humans (2023) which is being produced by Aritra Sen. He has directed the feature film Prantik - The Talisman, with Aritra Sen as a co-director. The film is ready and waiting for distribution. His previous film Road Music: Easy Riders, Prodigal Sons (2020) is a feature documentary about the legacy of the Delta Blues. Enter The Jungle, a feature documentary about MMA fighters from Brazil’s ‘favelas’ was screened at Cannes in 2014 and sold worldwide by Park Entertainment. His previous credits include the BAFTA-nominated cinema short The Fiancee, and Vacuum. His EMMY-nominated BBC drama The Lives of Animals, starring Eileen Atkins and Paul Rhys, was based on a JM Coetzee story and adapted with the writer Tanika Gupta. Harvey started directing at the BBC, working on documentary and arts programmes such as ‘Panorama’, ‘Assignment’ and ‘The Late Show’. His first film for Channel Four, A Bill Called William, was nominated for the John Grierson award. He has produced and directed several documentary series including Slave Nation for Channel Four and Old New World for the BBC. Harvey set up Kingsway Films with fellow director Reg Traviss and co-produced Kingsway’s first movie, Joy Division, which was distributed worldwide by Handmade Films. Song Noir, Harvey's book on Tom Waits and the spirit of Los Angeles was published in the UK by Reaktion Books and in the US by University of Chicago Press in 2022.