United States/Australia
She/Her
2023 Cohort
Born in Sydney, Alex Bateman is a filmmaker, writer and designer living in New York City. She was previously the Digital Marketing Manager and Graphic Designer for Sydney Film Festival, Communications Coordinator at NIXCo, Director of Verge Creative Arts and Culture Festival, and editor of the Hermes Literary Journal.
Narrative short film 
Born in Sydney, Alex Bateman is a filmmaker, writer and designer living in New York City. She was previously the Digital Marketing Manager and Graphic Designer for Sydney Film Festival, Communications Coordinator at NIXCo, Director of Verge Creative Arts and Culture Festival, and editor of the Hermes Literary Journal. She managed the New Plays Festival and Arts Publicity for Columbia University, and is in her final semester of her MFA at Columbia. In 2022, she received the AAUW International Fellowship for her thesis work at Columbia University and she was awarded the American Australian Association Arts Grant in filmmaking. She has also been named the Scholar of Sexology fellow for the Kinsey Institute for 2023-2024 and has just received the Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grant from Cornell University for her thesis film ‘Smut Merchant.’ As a Pleasure Fellow, Alex aims to combat the pleasure-taboo through her work.
Alex plans to develop a narrative short film project that comments on the commercialization of female sexuality during this time period through the exploration of industrial design.
Her goal is to examine how the pleasure taboo was reinforced in the late 1990s despite sex being commercially viable. This subject is often left out of sexual discourse and it’s integral that pleasure is brought into the conversation in a literal way. This erasure highlights the cultural stigmas that surround women's sexuality, and the ways in which these stigmas have been perpetuated over time.
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