Alexis Bloom, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Alexis now
lives in New York. In her early career, she
produced widely for the National Geographic
Channel, and for BBC World. She also produced
extensively for PBS Frontline and NOVA.
In 2014, Alexis won the Producers Guild of
America Award for We Steal Secrets: The Story of
WikiLeaks, a feature documentary for Universal
Pictures, also nominated for a BAFTA Award. In
2017, she was nominated for an Emmy for
Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction
Programming, and an Emmy for Exceptional Merit
in Documentary Filmmaking (Bright Lights:
Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, for
HBO.) Alexis directed, Divide and Conquer: The
Story of Roger Ailes and was nominated for an
Emmy Award in 2019. Alexis’ films have shown in
film festivals around the world: the Cannes Film
Festival, Telluride, Toronto, and the New York Film
Festival to name a few.
Svetlana Zill is a filmmaker born and raised in
New York City. She has worked as a producer for
some of the most renowned documentarians of
our time including Alex Gibney, Errol Morris, and
Morgan Spurlock. She began her career as an
archival researcher on Michael Moore’s
Capitalism: A Love Story and Mike Mills’
Beginners, and worked as a consulting producer
for the Academy Award nominated Cutie and the
Boxer, which also won an Emmy.
Her work explores an impressive range of
subjects that include vast CIA conspiracies,
eccentric sports fans, pop culture icons and fine
artists, and has been presented by HBO,
Showtime, Netflix, PBS and The New York Times.
CATCHING FIRE is Svetlana’s directorial debut.