Writer | Director
ALEXIA COLETTE
A former SFFILM FilmHouse resident in San Francisco, Alexia Colette crafts stark, minimalist fictions where everyday tensions crack open the deeper fractures of society.
REEL 2023
WORK
KOKOKIDS OF PARIS
Drama | 14m | 2019
Two girls get away in a dreamy adventure until they face the harsh reality surrounding their lives and that of more and more kids in Paris.
The Kokokids of Paris. Glowing on the inside, while living in the shadows.
7 nominations, 2 awards and a dozen of selections by prestigious film festivals such as the Boston International Film Festival.
Now on WatchArgo and Flixa
Starring
Chaya Kama, Lou-Ann Zozime
Written and directed by Alexia Colette
Outstanding International Film
Micheaux Film Festival 2020
Best Actresses
Method Film Festival
2020
2020 Official Selection
Boston International
Film Festival
Outstanding Directing Nomination
Micheaux Film Festival 2020
SUB ROSA
Drama | 4m | 2021
Jesse and Blair are trying to make up. One more time. But this new lie is not a little one...
An ambiguous scene written by award winning and reputed writer director Alex Smith (Winter in the Blood, The Slaughter Rule, Walking out...) and directed by Alexia Colette for a Sundance Co//ab project.
Starring
Kelly Fonseca, Rufo Quintavalle
Written by Alex Smith, directed by Alexia Colette
SOEURS
Drama | 3m50 | 2021
Iris can't stand her sister Prune anymore. She finds her inflexible when it comes to her principles... until she realizes her anarchist boyfriend has more principles than Prune. But no love.
What happens on a Saturday evening when you learn that you have a free camera and an amazing DP for the coming afternoon? You decide to shoot an improvised short film. This is Soeurs.
Starring
Romane Raffin-Delys, Sarah Thiery, Maxime Barkowski
Written and directed by Alexia Colette
DYSFUNCTIONAL
Dark Comedy | 10m | 2022
San Francisco. When Hunter kills time at the dive bar while waiting for his big tech meeting, time isn’t the only thing that gets killed.
Inspired by surrealism’s rejection of logic, this dystopian story is a labyrinth losing the viewers until they trace back Ariana's red thread…
Written and directed by Alexia Colette
In Development
PAS DE QUARTIER !
Short Doc | 3m30 | 2015
In 2015, French national public TV France Télévisions organized a nationwide short doc contest dedicated to innovative screenwriting called "Film your neighborhood".
Alexia Colette shot a short doc about French nomadic Gypsies. Pas de quartier! -- original French title toying with the double meaning “no neighborhood” and “no pity" -- deals with the discrimination towards French nomadic Gypsies and their difficulties living in France.
Alexia received an award from France Télévisions and was profiled on national French public channel France 3. Her short doc aired on the same channel France 3.
Written and directed by Alexia Colette
Winner for
Best Short Doc 2015
France Télévisions
IN 24 HOURS FLAT:
THE SECRET SIDE
OF PACKAGE DELIVERY
Prime Time Doc I 52m I 2013
Investigative documentary for Sunday prime time program "Doc du dimanche" on French national TV France 5.
Back in 2013, Alexia Colette succeeded in the first infiltration with a hidden camera in an Amazon’ secure warehouse equipped with body scanning equipment to document the working conditions. Scenes captured include an employee fainting from overwork (then dismissed).
Audience: +1 million viewers when airing for the first time.
Written and directed by Alexia Colette
PAS DE QUARTIER !
Short Doc | 3m30 | 2015
WHEN OUR T-SHIRTS
SPIN AFFRAY
Prime Time Doc | 52m | 2016
Investigative documentary about the clothing industry (shooting in India and Bangladesh).
From cotton fields to French rivers, Alexia Colette documents the damages of fast fashion. She filmed the forced labour of children in cotton fields in a remote Indian region.
Aired on French national TV France 5 in its Sunday prime time program "Doc du dimanche"
Written and directed by Alexia Colette
BIO
ALEXIA COLETTE
A former SFFILM FilmHouse resident in San Francisco, Alexia Colette writes and directs fiction rooted in tense, everyday realities — where the personal cracks open the hidden fractures of a system.
Her films follow characters pushed to the margins, revealing how subtle, gradual shifts in society can lead to poverty, creeping authoritarianism, and social breakdown.
Her latest short, Denied (Radiés), imagines a near future where providing medical care is a crime. The story explores ethical disobedience, administrative violence, and the quiet strength of those who refuse to give in.
A graduate of Sciences Po Lyon, one of France’s leading political science institutes, Alexia spent a decade directing documentaries and investigative reports for French national television (ARTE, France 3, France 5, TF1…).
That work shaped a precise, reality-driven approach she now brings to minimalist fiction, anchored in social issues and crafted to let audiences feel, reflect, and leave with lingering questions about where our societies are headed.
