Directing and producing Alexander Carson is a founding member of the
North Country Cinema media arts collective, along with filmmakers
Kyle Thomas and Nicholas Martin, colleagues whom he met at film school in Montreal. As a writer/director, Carson has presented work at many major international festivals, including the
Toronto International Film Festival. Carson's films explore intimate, personal narratives and experimental approaches to visual storytelling. In 2012, he won the Award for Achievement in Direction from the
Air Canada enRoute Film Festival for his film
We Refuse To Be Cold. In 2014, Carson received the Golden Gate Award for New Visions at the
San Francisco International Film Festival for his film
Numbers & Friends. Later that year, Carson completed work on
North Country Cinema's first feature film
The Valley Below as a producer. Written and directed by longtime colleague and collaborator
Kyle Thomas, the film premiered at the
Toronto International Film Festival and went on to garner two
Canadian Screen Award nominations in 2015. Carson's first feature-length film as a writer/director,
O, Brazen Age, premiered at the
Vancouver International Film Festival in 2015. The film was subsequently selected for numerous other festivals in North America and Europe, including the
Reykjavik International Film Festival. Carson returned to
VIFF in 2016 to premiere a short film entitled
The New Canada. This film would be recognized with a Gold Bison Award at the
Buffalo International Film Festival later that year.
The New Canada was acquired by the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2017.
Acting Carson often performs in his own films, and frequently cites his appreciation for the work of amateur actors or "non-actors" in cinema. Carson performed the role of Mr. Oddi in
Sheila Heti's play
All Our Happy Days Are Stupid directed by
Jordan Tannahill. The show was first presented at
Videofag in 2013, before a larger remount at the
Harbourfront Centre in Toronto and at
The Kitchen in New York City in 2015. Carson was nominated for a
Dora Mavor Moore Award in 2014 as part of the show's
ensemble cast. ==Filmography (as writer/director)==