Alexandra Stergiou is a New York–born, Los Angeles–based writer and director working in the tradition of cinéma vérité. Her work investigates the space between lived behavior and staged action.

She spent over a decade directing, producing, shooting, and editing documentary films in an observational mode influenced by Jean Rouch and the Maysles brothers. Her documentary work includes projects for PBS, ITV, the Tribeca Film Institute, international brands, and the co-directed feature The Candidates (DOC NYC, SXSW EDU, Fuse).

Her semi-scripted short The Act of Coming Out premiered at the Athens International Film + Video Festival and was featured in The New Yorker and as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Adrian Curry (MUBI) described the film as “beautiful and heartbreaking,” and Vera Carothers (The New Yorker) wrote, “The fusion of real life and performance creates an uncanny emotional resonance… we’re left to parse which tears and trepidations feel genuine, and measure them up against our own.”

Her follow-up short And Then I Was Here extends this approach, combining observational documentary technique with scripted narrative structure. The film screened at SFFILM, where it was nominated for Best Documentary Short, with her cinematography described as “sensual and tender” by The Moveable Fest.

Her narrative debut Miss applies these same methods to fiction, working with actors in an intimate, process-driven mode rooted in realism. The film screened at Raindance, Rooftop Films, New Orleans Film Festival, NewFest, SFFILM, and Montclair.

She is expanding this practice across both scripted and unscripted work and is currently developing a feature screenplay that continues her exploration of performance, intimacy, and realism.