Unpacking

Alexandra is a writer/director whose work leans into the earnest and awkward experience of being human. Her first narrative feature, ‘Unpacking’ as a co/writer-director-producer is currently picking up awards on the 2023 festival circuit and garnering praise for its excellent ensemble acting. Filmed in Bali over 13 days on a micro budget, ‘Unpacking’ explores the hypocrisies of wellness tourism and the power of vulnerability. She’s directed, written and produced narrative shorts, web series, branded and documentary content for the last 10 years and has three short films ready to shoot on her 2023 docket. Outside of helming her own projects she enjoys the layers of creative producing for early career directors. Her work in this realm includes the narrative feature ‘No More Time,’ an environmental horror set in the mountains of Colorado, and the short films ‘The Box,’ ‘Forevertown’ and ‘Please in Spanish’ for which she was a 2022 producing fellow for Women In Film and Google’s inaugural Shorts Lab. Films she’s acted in have screened at over 30 festivals including Karlovy Vary, NYC’s Rooftop Films, and SF’s Cinema by the Bay, and streamed on Amazon and Kinoscope. A grounded optimist who thrives in the creation of original work, Alexandra believes the stories we tell create the culture we live in. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog Roo.

Michal Sinnott is an award winning, classically trained actor/writer/director & storyteller who’s work in film, television, theatre, audio spaces, & games traverses mediums, genres, & locales. Her first narrative feature, ‘Unpacking,’ as a co/writer-director-producer is currently on the 2022/23 festival circuit and winning awards at nearly all of them. ‘Unpacking’ was recently accepted into Cinequest VR & Film Festival for their Bay Area premier. She’s appeared in dozens of plays and over fifty principal/starring roles for radio, television and film, including companies/institutions as diverse as ABC, Sundance and The Whitney Museum of American Art. She’s best known as the voice, likeness and performance capture artist for Tracey De Santa, one of the main characters in the billion dollar phenomena Grand Theft Auto V. Her stage plays have received staged readings and awards in Virginia (Theater Virginia) and Los Angeles (The Blank Theatre). She’s in development on a variety of projects as a writer-director, including ‘Anxiety Monster & Man Child Make Amends,’ a meta scripted comedy series about the worst period of her life & a narrative feature, ‘The Universe(s) of Us,’ a magical realist multiverse love story. A former flight attendant and two time cancer survivor, she’s traveled to thirty+ countries on six continents. She lives in NYC with her husband (and frequent writing collaborator) Joseph. michalsinnott.com