Alex Camilleri studied English literature and documentary filmmaking at Vassar College, where he gained recognition for his thesis project, Still Here ('10), that went on to win Best Student Documentary at the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at Cannes. In 2017, Camilleri made his narrative film debut with Prickly Pear, which premiered at TIFF Kids. He works closely with filmmaker Ramin Bahrani.
As an editor, his work has screened at Venice, Telluride, TIFF, and New Directors/New Films. In 2016, he was invited to the Sundance Institute's Editing Intensive, where he workshopped Keep the Change with writer-director Rachel Israel. They previously collaborated on Israel's short film of the same name, which won the Focus Features Best Film Award at the Columbia University Film Festival. Keep the Change is his feature film debut as Editor.
MFF Karlovy Vary
