Vanessa Alexander wrote stage plays before turning her hand to writing, directing and producing on-screen. After making quirky feature Magik and Rose, she was invited to produce hit youth series Being Eve, then directed the opening episodes of Outrageous Fortune. After relocating overseas, Alexander went on to write for Golden Globe-nominated series The Great and Vikings spin-off Valhalla.
In this ScreenTalk interview from 2009, Alexander talks about:
I think I'm really in the film industry out of just total persistence . . . Some people after being rejected three times, they stopped applying. Some people it was seven, some people it was twelve. I was on the verge of quitting after the twentieth turn down. I thought 'well actually I'm not going to apply for short film funding anymore... maybe what I should just do is write a feature'.– Vanessa Alexander on the persistence that led to her first feature, Magik and Rose
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