Alex Skalomenos

Hello! Thank you for stopping by. I'm a creative, producer, and documentary storyteller who produces and directs media across types. I also, on occasion, advise on creative content strategy and communications. If you’d like to view some of my work, please check out the menu at the top of the page.

Since 2016, I’ve often worked in social advocacy and progressive politics, where I produce the paid television and digital creative for political campaigns, issues, and causes. From 2016 to 2018, I was a producer with AKPD Message & Media. I then joined AL Media in 2020, where I creative produced and produced the paid media for clients at the highest levels of US politics — including prominent gubernatorial, congressional, statewide, and mayoral campaigns. It’s nice to play a small but meaningful role in the political process.

I'm now the producer at Eicoff, a data-driven Ogilvy agency that sparks growth across the landscapes of television, digital, and audio for brands of all sizes. Outside of the commercial space, I enjoy directing and creating documentary and documentary-style projects. Whether it’s to explore an important issue or better connect an organization with their audience, I love being able to tell a real and heartfelt story. It beats nifty camera moves and glitzy editing every time! Since 2017, I’ve often collaborated with a pretty cool company, Evoker, who specialize in story-first, emotionally resonant documentary brand filmmaking.

As a documentarian and documentary filmmaker, my personal projects are most often focused on the history, traditions, and cultures of the Philippines. As a Filipino-American, I find great fulfillment in helping to illuminate and elevate those stories. I often work with the non-profit Ynchausti Foundation in the Philippines, where I help to document and preserve through visual and narrative-based mediums meaningful aspects of the Philippines’ rich history. I am currently directing a documentary about the occupation and subsequent liberation of Manila during WWII, and the lifelong effects that wartime trauma has on children who experience and survive such atrocities. I’ve also long been at work on Panata, a decade plus documentary exploration of tradition, faith, and spirituality in the Pampanga region of the Philippines. Panata was developed while I was a fellow in Kartemquin Films' Diverse Voices in Documentary Fellowship for filmmakers of color.

And speaking of Kartemquin Films, it’s also where I got my starts in media, communications, and documentary work — and over the years have worked in various capacities on a number of their feature films, went through their internship and DVID programs, and served on staff as a part of their organizational team. It’s a fantastic documentary non-profit and filmmaking community worth supporting.

Above all, I believe in the importance of visual and narrative-based media in preserving history, shedding light on underserved stories and issues, and fostering real change. It’s nice to make something that’s just kinda fun and cool occasionally though, too.

If you’d like to chat about a project, please feel free to email me at skalomenos (dot) alex (at) gmail (dot) com. You can also connect with me via the buttons below. I appreciate your time!