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About Alexander Galant

Writer & Director

In the beginning, Alexander had the opportunity in almost every technical position in theatre, and went on to direct several plays. He received the Adjudicator's Award for Innovation, for Incorporating Animation, Computer-Generated Effects and Film Sequences with live actors in The Wizard of Oz and received a similar Thea Award for Singin' in the Rain for which he made it rain across the stage. Other theatre directing includes: A Tribute to Judy Garland, Love Letters, I'll Be Back Before Midnight and The Odd Couple. Alex recently directed A Christmas Carol the Musical and a successful run of Twelve Angry Men.

Over the years he has also worked in several capacities in film and television, learning from the bottom up. He started writing his own short films to gain directing experience. Films directed by Alexander include: The Missing Piece currently on the festival circuit and recent "Silver Remi Award" winner for ‘Suspense Thriller‘ - WorldFest Houston Film Festival; Moonlight Desire (a Dracula video) for which Mickey Rooney lent his voice as the character of Prof. Van Helsing; The Jigsaw Puzzle, which has been screened at film festivals in New York, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Salem and Milan, receiving the "Special Festival BUZZ Award" (most talked about film) from the New York International Independent Film Festival. His more "artsy" vampire film, First Light, has been screened in festivals all over the world, winning several awards including: the "Bronze Remi Award" from WorldFest Houston Film Festival, "Special Commendation" in the Festival of Fantastic Films (UK), "Best Music/Soundtrack" in the Toronto Online Film Festival, and Nominations for "Best Director" and "Best Technical Achievement" from the International Festival of Cinema and Technology (World Tour Film Festival). His short Star Wars spoof entitled Star Wars: Blasted Behavior was selected by George Lucas as one of the finalists in AtomFilms' 2009 Star Wars Fan Film Competition. It won "Best Foreign Sci-Fi Short" in the New York International Independent Film Festival 2010. It is one of the official selections in the DragonCon 2011 Film Festival.

Alexander's life turned towards literature a few years ago when he was the historical researcher and ghostwriter for the novel Dracula the Un-Dead, which was on the New York Times Best Sellers list in October 2009. His work on the novel helped the authors get a nomination for the Best First Novel category for the International Thriller Writers 2010 ThrillerAwards. Alexander also adapted the novel into a dramatic stage reading for the Toronto book launch of Dracula the Un-Dead, which brought out the highest turnout for any event on the book tour. http://www.draculatheundead.ca/ (In 1997, Alexander had directed a similar event Dracula or The Un-Dead - A Re-Adaptation of Bram Stoker's own Original 1897 Dramatic Reading.)