Alexandra Qin is an award-winning screenwriter and independent filmmaker based in New York with a background in technology, social justice, and visual/performance art. She was born and raised in Paris, France, to a half-French, half-Filipina mother and a Chinese father.

She is currently developing her first feature, THIRSTYGIRL, the screenplay for which was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Page Awards, a 2022 Nicholl Semifinalist, and the Winner of the 2021 Finish Line Social Impact screenplay competition.

Outside of her work in film, Alexandra is the founder of Emergent Works, a non-profit that teaches formerly incarcerated people to code and helps them start careers in tech. As a performance and visual artist, Alexandra’s work, inspired by her own addiction recovery journey, explores the many faces of addiction. Her first solo show, Losing Things, an immersive multimedia monologue performed alongside 365 illustrations, one for each day of her first year of sobriety, premiered in New York in December 2019.