Alejandro de los Rios is a Cuban-Venezuelan filmmaker based in New Orleans and has directed documentaries, short films, music videos and commercials. He’s served as the Virtuous Video Producer for NOVAC since 2022.

Alejandro served as the Cinematography and Editing Mentor for NOVAC’s Community Documnetary Co-Hort, which produced short films that won a Audience Awards at the 2024, 2023 and 2022 New Orleans Film Festivals, as well as a Special Jury Mention in 2024.

His short film, Game Day Ritual, was a 2024 Louisiana Film Prize finalist and won Best Editing at the 2024 UNO Film Festival. His credits also include “Distant Mardi Gras” & “Different Mardi Gras” documenting Covid’s impact on New Orleans, its artists and culture bearers; “9 for No. 9,” a documentary series on NFL quarterback Drew Brees; “m.a.m.i.” a sci-fi short directed under the mentorship of Werner Herzog.

Alejandro won ‘Best Editing’ & ‘Best Sound Design’ at the 2015 New Orleans 48 Hour Film Fest and was named to the New Orleans Film Festival’s Emerging Voices Program in 2017. He directed and starred in his first short film “Jalapeno Andretti,” which premiered at the 2017 Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival.

Raised outside Washington D.C., he studied writing at Ithaca College and then worked as a freelance journalist writing for ESPN the Magazine, VICE, the Associated Press, Deadspin and others.