Alejandra Vasquez is a Mexican-American filmmaker raised between rural Texas and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her feature directorial debut, GOING VARSITY IN MARIACHI, co-directed with Sam Osborn, premiered at Sundance 2023 where it won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition, and is now streaming on Netflix.
Her short films include Folk Frontera (Independent Lens), winner of Best Texas Short at SXSW; Baca (LA Times Short Docs), commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); and When It’s Good, It’s Good (POV Shorts), a co-production with Latino Public Broadcasting currently streaming on the Criterion Channel.
Alejandra began her career as a producer at Hard Working Movies, working alongside Lori Cheatle. She has contributed to acclaimed documentaries such as MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. (2018), US KIDS (2020), PLAN C (2023), and most recently co-produced Nanfu Wang’s HBO Original Documentary, NIGHT IS NOT ETERNAL (2024).
Now based in Los Angeles, Alejandra co-founded Masa Films with Sam Osborn, where they are developing, producing, and directing nonfiction and narrative projects. She is currently writing her first feature script, HALF ORANGE, with support from the SFFILM Rainin Fellowship, and co-writing TEEN AGE RIOT with Sam.
