Crook & Nanny Productions
Recipient Information
Location
Asheville, North Carolina
Medium
Film
Year of Award
2027
Grant or Fellowship
Southern Artist Spotlight Grant
Grant Amount
$0
John Alexander is an Emmy®-winning film director and editor who co-owns and operates the production company and post-production facility Crook & Nanny Productions with JC Guest, based in Asheville, NC. After graduating from Harvard University, Alexander and Guest's feature debut, "Bender," a thriller on America's first serial killing family, won a Golden Strands award for Outstanding Cast before being distributed in North America, Asia, Africa and Europe to cult status. As an encore, his feature documentary, "This Is Love," winner of the Raindance Spirit Award and Best International Documentary in Rome, broke attendance records screening at 50 international film festivals, where it won numerous top prizes, before its streaming debut on Amazon. Alexander and Guest’s internationally distributed PBS documentary on Louis Armstrong’s secret daughter, “Little Satchmo,” won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary (Southeast). Alexander has been a guest director at the American Film Institute, an invited filmmaker instructor by the National Endowment for the Arts, a jury member and masterclass instructor in six countries, and a voting member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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Little Satchmo
Emmy-winning feature documentary: Little Satchmo is an intimate exploration of the iconic Louis Armstrong's life and legacy through his relationship with the daughter that the public never knew existed. Based on a revealing memoir written by Armstrong's silent daughter, the film seeks to correct a historical narrative that has relied on caricature for too long.
This Is Love
Multi-award-winning feature documentary on little-known soul singer Rudy Love.