Alexandra Cuerdo
- Director
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Alexandra Cuerdo is an award-winning Chinese/Filipino-American writer, director, producer and author, recently named one of the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women In the World by the Filipina Women's Network. In 2020, Alexandra directed the International Press Freedom Awards for NBC, featuring Meryl Streep and Amal Clooney. Her feature directorial debut ULAM: Main Dish is available on Hulu and Amazon Prime, and is the first Filipino food documentary to achieve worldwide distribution! This year, ULAM was the second most-watched film on Hulu - second only to Bong Joon-Ho's 'Parasite' - for their Asian Pacific Heritage Month campaign.
Alexandra's first book AMBOY: Recipes From the Filipino-American Dream was named one of Amazon's 20 Best Books of the Year, and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Always an advocate for equality, Allie has spoken at Google, Spotify, Yale and at the Teen Vogue Summit about her career as an openly queer, female Asian director. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Vogue, New York Magazine, TimeOut, Filmmaker Magazine and more.
Alexandra's first book AMBOY: Recipes From the Filipino-American Dream was named one of Amazon's 20 Best Books of the Year, and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Always an advocate for equality, Allie has spoken at Google, Spotify, Yale and at the Teen Vogue Summit about her career as an openly queer, female Asian director. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Vogue, New York Magazine, TimeOut, Filmmaker Magazine and more.
