09/18/2026
Congratulations to Alex Chew, whose short film BLUEGRASS RADIO won the Vanishing Angle Post Grant this year! We’ve loved helping her bring the film across the finish line. It’s almost ready, and we can’t wait for you to see it!
Alex Chew is a screenwriter, filmmaker, Black Auteur Film Festival director, and executive producer at Sequence 8 films. Her screenplays have been shortlisted at Nicholl, Austin Film Festival, CBS Mentoring Program, Cinestory, Launchpad, Screencraft, WeScreenplay, and Stage32. Her shorts have been selected for the Academy Award qualifying Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival, Denton Black Film Festival, Film Quest, Sidewalk, Julien Dubuque, Waco, San Antonio, Phoenix, Rome International, Babefest, Twelve Lions, Portland Horror, Austin Comedy, and more. She is also a two-time Austin Film Festival Panelist, Austin Film Society Short Film Grantee, City of Austin Elevate Grantee, Black Art Matters Grantee, and was selected for the prestigious Austin Film Society Artist Intensive. Currently, she is in development with several twisty genre features about badass Southern Black women, including an adaption of the novel Delta, with her literary manager Anastasiya Kukhtareva at Wildflower.