Al is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY and co-founder of production company Eldest Daughter. Their 2018 docu-fiction short, “Distance,” was praised by NoBudge.com for its “intoxicating ability to capture private conversations with dead-on accuracy,” and by a Short of the Week programmer for “Amazing performances and direction.” Al’s recent film works have screened at Academy Award-qualifying festivals and museums worldwide, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, LA Shorts International, Brooklyn Film Festival, and Paris Film Week. Al’s consumerist satire, “I Already Went,” premiered in May 2024 at Vienna Shorts International, and their psychological comedy in development, “Muses masculines,” is a 2025 NYSCA awardee, WeScreenplay’s Shorts Semi-Finalist, and ScreenCraft Film Fund Quarter Finalist. Their newest psychological comedy short, “Welcome to Paris,” is a top 5 finalist in Shore Script’s 2025 Short Film Fund, and will premiere in June 2026 at Brooklyn Film Festival. Al’s debut original feature screenplay “Nothing to Hide” won the International Screenwriters’ Association’s Table Read My Screenplay Grand Prize and received a table read at Cannes Marché du Film in 2025, where Al also pitched the feature as part of the Linz International Talent Academy cohort. A queer dark comedy set at a bachelorette party in the suburban Midwest, “Nothing to Hide” is slated for production in September 2026.
