Alexi Gonzalez
Work
Netflix Original Series "On My Block"
Season 4 Episode 3
Los Angeles, California
Episodic Director - Alexi Gonzalez
Logline: "On My Block" follows a quartet of bright, street-savvy friends who are navigating their way through high school, including all the of the triumph, pain and newness they experience along the way. Lifelong friendships are tested as Monse, Ruby, Jamal and Cesar confront the challenges of adolescence and life in their predominantly Hispanic and black neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles in this coming-of-age comedy series.
Season 4 coming soon
"SLICE"
Proof Of Concept for Pilot
Los Angeles, California
Writer Director - Alexi Gonzalez
Logline: Amaris is an intimacy avoiding casual sex seeking video game programmer who has been tasked with the mission to hunt down the Slices of her soul she fucked away- I mean- given away to all the loves and lusts of her past. She must collect 10 Slices of her soul through a journey of acceptance or face the consequences of being faded into The Engulfment. Does that sound life-threatening? Yes, because it is. Is this a sex-positive show? Abso-fuckin-lutely!
Currently in Post
"ON My Block" Netflix Original Series - Digital Content
Los Angeles, California
Writer Director Editor Producer - Alexi Gonzalez
Three scripted comedy mini-series (10 episodes each, 30 sec. to 2-minute episodes) that are in character set in the On My Block world. Each series is as if the lead characters on the show have made their own vlogging channel. Additionally released 41 videos of exclusive behind the scenes looks and interviews with cast and crew.
"Pray" Music Video
Los Angeles, California
Writer Director Editor Producer - Alexi Gonzalez
"Demon's Gate" Short Film
Tokyo, Japan
Writer Director - Alexi Gonzalez
Logline: In the efforts to gain respect from her mother, the most reputable Chairman in the Japanese Diet, a young Politician will go to any extreme to "cleanse" Tokyo of its homeless population in the community of Demon's Gate before the next census threatens their political status.
Development: "Demon's Gate" was developed as part of the Ghetto Film School International Thesis Project. Ghetto Film School announced a short film would be shot in Tokyo and is entirely in Japanese. Alexi's script was selected to go into production. Through a pitching process, she was then awarded directorship, making her the first thesis Writer/Director in Ghetto Film School history.
Post: "Demon's Gate" premiered at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, October 2015. Oscar-Nominated Director David O. Russell and Twentieth Century Fox Chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos enthusiastically hosted the exclusive premiere. "Demon's Gate" premiered to the world at the 2016 Bentonville Film Festival opening for Oscar Nominated film "Nebraska." Most recently, "Demon's Gate" was amongst the five short films to screen at the Soho House as part of the CAA Short Film Initiative.