ALEXIA PRICHARD - CAMERA
Producer/Director of Photography
Based in Los Angeles, Ms. Prichard currently works as a freelance producer, writer, videographer and editor, as well as acting as consultant for the Science Media Group of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge MA for whom she was the staff series producer of an educational/sports, reality-style show for teens.
Prior to her work at the CfA, for three years Ms. Prichard worked as a segment and show producer for “Oxygen Sports,” the groundbreaking show on women's sports on the Oxygen network in New York City. Oxygen Sports sought to empower women and girls by airing women’s sporting events in their entirety as well as providing athlete profiles, instructional segments, and features on the history of each sport. Ms. Prichard shot, produced and edited stories internationally, working with such top-name female athletes as Mia Hamm (soccer), Jackie Joyner-Kersee (decathlon), Nadia Comaneci (gymnastics), Lisa Leslie (basketball), Cammi Granato (ice hockey), Alexandra Stevenson (tennis), Jan Youren (rodeo), Kathie Loesch (archery) and Ellen MacArthur (sailing).
Before Oxygen, Ms. Prichard worked with Academy Award winning actress and documentarian Lee Grant at Feury-Grant Entertainment assisting in the production of one-hour biographies for Lifetime Television's Intimate Portrait series. Portrait subjects included: Gloria Steinem, Cyndi Lauper, Lauren Bacall and Mia Farrow. Feury-Grant's portrait of Gloria Steinem was honored as the 100th Intimate Portrait.
EDUCATION
BFA in Theatre, 1989. Experimental Theatre Wing-Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Experience:
HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS
Staff Series Producer
Working with the Science Education Department of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Ms. Prichard developed, wrote and edited a half-hour, educational, reality-style show for teens that blended sports & science.
VECTORSCOPE FILMS
Producer/Director of Photography
"JIMMY MAZZY & THE LAST MINUTE MEN."
Documentary on Jimmy Mazzy, local Boston traditional jazz banjo great, and the motley crew of men and women who have played with him for 20 years at the historic Colonial Inn in Concord, MA.
"MORNING."
Short feature. Written and directed by Alexia Prichard. Shot on HD. In post-production.
“SEARCHING FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM.”
Documentary on the search for a definition of the new American Dream for today’s globalized society.
In pre-production.
“MARY MCBRIDE AND THE 5 BORO TOUR”
Tour documentary on New York alt-country singer/songwriter Mary McBride (www.marymcbride.com).
In post-production.
“WOMEN OFF HAND”
Experimental film about four women and how they use their hands in their professions. Features a conga drummer, an African hair braider, a jeweler, and an Indian henna (mehandi) artist.
In post-production.
VARIOUS
Director of Photography
“NOISEPOP – THE DOCUMENTARY”
Documentary on the 11-year-old San Francisco independent rock music festival, “NoisePop.” Lead camera for bands “The Donnas,” “Cat Power” and “Folk Implosion.”
In post production, Act Now! Productions.
“THE SEAGULL”
Documentary on Boston theatre company’s rehearsal & performance process of Anton Chekhov’s play. In post production, Liberation! Films.
“I.S.M.R.M. ORAL HISTORY”
Oral history project with prominent neurologists in the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. In post-production. | 
