Alice Russell is a documentary filmmaker who works with outlaws and romantic rebels, outsiders who are agents of change. Her first short film, Men Buy Sex, won the SIMA Creative Activism Award as well as Vimeo Staff Picks Best of the Month.
Alice’s debut feature documentary, If the Streets Were on Fire, had its world premiere at BFI London Film Festival, broadcast on BBC Storyville, and had a limited theatrical release. It was nominated for four British Independent Film Awards where it won Best Feature Documentary and the Raindance Maverick Awards, and was also longlisted for BAFTA Outstanding Debut 2024. She was recently selected for BAFTA Breakthrough (2024).
Alice has directed a variety of formats from shorts to feature docs for the likes of the BBC, Channel 4 and Vice News. She has worked on flagship current affairs strands Panorama and Dispatches, and her films have screened at festivals worldwide.