DIVIDE AND CONQUER: THE STORY OF ROGER AILES

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Alexis produced widely for the National Geographic Channel, and for BBC World in her early career. She has worked in America since 2001, and has produced extensively for PBS Frontline on both investigative pieces and international stories. Alexis was a producer on the Emmy Award-winning PBS show Rx For Survival (for long-form non-fiction) and was also a producer and director on the NOVA series This Emotional Life. In 2014, Alexis was the recipient of the Producer’s Guild of America Award in 2014 for We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, a feature documentary for Universal Pictures that Alex Gibney directed. In 2017, Alexis was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming, and also for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, for Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a documentary film she made for HBO.

Will is a long time contributor to the PBS public affairs series FRONTLINE, producing documentaries all over the world. He was part of the team behind Firestone and the Warlord, a joint investigation with ProPublica into the tire giant’s dealings with Liberian strongman Charles Taylor, winner of a 2014 Robert F. Kennedy award, an IRE award for investigative reporting, and two Emmy awards. He was also shortlisted for a Peabody for Chasing Heroin (2016), a two-hour FRONTLINE special presentation about the American opioid epidemic. Most recently, he was a consulting producer on Dirty Money, an investigative series about financial crime and corruption, which premiered this year on Netflix.

Alex Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer. Gibney has been called “the most important documentarian of our time” by Esquire Magazine and “one of America’s most successful and prolific documentary filmmakers” by The New York Times. His previous work includes Taxi to the Dark Side, winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the Emmy-award winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) and Zero Days (2016). His latest films include No Stone Unturned which premiered at the New York Film Festival in September of 2017; and HBO’s Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (2017), co-directed by Blair Foster.