Alexis Neophytides

Alexis Neophytides is an award winning documentary filmmaker and educator. She is the co-creator, co-director and producer of Neighborhood Slice, a public television documentary series that tells the stories of longtime New Yorkers who've held onto their little corner of the city despite fast-growing gentrification. She produced and directed the series 9.99, for which she won an Emmy. Her first feature-length documentary, Dear Thirteen – exploring coming of age in the modern world – premiered at DOC NYC in 2022 and is currently available on Apple TV and Amazon Prime. Her second feature, Fire Through Dry Grass, co-directed with Andres “Jay” Molina, documents Jay and his fellow Reality Poets’ art and activism inside their nursing home during the COVID 19 pandemic. FIRE premiered at BlackStar in 2023, where it won the jury award for best feature documentary, and was broadcast and is currently streaming on POV/PBS. Her work has been supported by ITVS, the Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, IDA, Perspective Fund, Fork Films, the New York State Council on the Arts and the NYC Women’s Fund, and she is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Grantee. Alexis is also the co-founder of The Big Chair, a full service video production company that creates socially driven content for non-profits, foundations and brands. Clients include the Drug Policy Alliance, Breakthrough New York, and Revlon, among others. As an educator, Alexis has developed filmmaking programs, implemented curricula and taught students all around NYC, including The Video Lab at The New School, The TEAK Fellowship and OPEN DOORS. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MA in Media Studies from The New School.