Alex Saks is a principal at Page Fifty-Four Pictures, a filmmaker-driven independent production company created in 2018 that produces and finances feature-length films. In 2017 Saks’ film The Florida Project, written and directed by Sean Baker and starring Willem Dafoe, garnered Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Independent Spirit nominations, among countless other honors including AFI, National Board of Review, Critics’ Choice and more than 40 other critics groups’ awards nationwide.
Saks recently produced Julie Taymor’s The Glorias (based on Gloria Steinem’s bestselling memoir My Life on the Road), starring Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Timothy Hutton and Janelle Monáe. She is also in postproduction on Charlie Day’s directorial debut El Tonto, starring Kate Beckinsale, Jason Sudeikis, Ken Jeong and Edie Falco.
Saks’ other producing credits include Zara Hayes’ Poms, starring Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver and Rhea Perlman; Book Club, with Keaton, Jane Fonda an
Alex Saks is a principal at Page Fifty-Four Pictures, a filmmaker-driven independent production company created in 2018 that produces and finances feature-length films. In 2017 Saks’ film The Florida Project, written and directed by Sean Baker and starring Willem Dafoe, garnered Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Independent Spirit nominations, among countless other honors including AFI, National Board of Review, Critics’ Choice and more than 40 other critics groups’ awards nationwide.
Saks recently produced Julie Taymor’s The Glorias (based on Gloria Steinem’s bestselling memoir My Life on the Road), starring Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Timothy Hutton and Janelle Monáe. She is also in postproduction on Charlie Day’s directorial debut El Tonto, starring Kate Beckinsale, Jason Sudeikis, Ken Jeong and Edie Falco.
Saks’ other producing credits include Zara Hayes’ Poms, starring Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver and Rhea Perlman; Book Club, with Keaton, Jane Fonda and Candice Bergen; Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan; Cory Finley’s Thoroughbreds, starring Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy and Anton Yelchin; Olivia Milch’s Dude, starring Lucy Hale, Kathryn Prescott and Awkwafina; Alethea Jones’ Fun Mom Dinner, starring Toni Collette, Molly Shannon and Bridget Everett; and Elizabeth Chomko’s What They Had, starring Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon and Blythe Danner. Her documentary credits include Joshua: Teenager vs. Super Power, the documentary that won the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary category and sold to Netflix.
In 2017 Saks was honored by both Variety (in its annual “10 Producers to Watch” list) and The Hollywood Reporter (“Next Gen: Hollywood’s Up-and-Coming Execs 35 and Under”) and she was singled out by Town & Country magazine as one of its “50 Modern Swans” in 2018. Saks began her career at The Mark Gordon Company and, following her time there, she went to work as a creative and production executive at Automatik and IM Global, under Brian Kavanaugh-Jones.
She then became an agent at ICM, where her work in the independent and international group revolved around the packaging, financing and selling of independent films such as Tallulah, Results, The Intervention, Time Out of Mind, Sandcastle, The Overnight, The Skeleton Twins, The One I Love, Infinitely Polar Bear, Stockholm, Pennsylvania and People, Places, Things. Saks is a graduate of Wake Forest University, where she received her degree in history.
