Alexandre Rockwell is best known for his independent films made in NYC with a small group of actors he met on the lower east side in the late 80s.

His first films helped launch the careers of well known actors like Steve Buscemi, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Stanley Tucci, as well as many other notable indie stars of the time.

His father Paul Rockwell met his mother Svetlana Ludmillia Alexeieff as an American GI in Paris and they married and relocated to Boston, Massachusetts.

Growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Rockwell struggled in school and often skipped class, spending his days playing pinball and sleeping in arthouse movie theaters.

Most recently Rockwell has turned to smaller and more independent micro-budget films made with his family, students, and friends to much critical and festival success.