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[email protected] www.spark.banffmediafestival.com Cohort 1 Participants Cohort 1 Alex Bailey Co-Founder/Producer, First Mark Alex Bailey has been creating films since she was a teenager as a director, writer and producer. Her directorial work has been shown by TIFF, VIFF and various others and her photojournalism has been published by Al Jazeera, VICE, CBC, and CTV, among others. Alex became a member of the Directors Guild of Canada as an Assistant Director when she was 19 and was fortunate to work on television shows such as The Handmaid’s Tale, Suits and various others. When she was 21 she worked as a writer’s assistant in Los Angeles for Ron Friedman on a Pixar China Animation and live action cross over and in 2017 she worked as a writers’ room intern on the children’s television show: The Next Step.