Alex Tanner
Development Producer
Prior to joining Slingshot, Alex worked in Los Angeles for Don Buchwald & Associates, supporting the Head of Literary. While in L.A., he also completed a Producer’s Business and Development course with Pepperdine University.
Prior to this, he worked in London as a freelance script reader for Intermedia Films and TalkBack Thames Television and as Production Assistant on Ealing Studios’ I WANT CANDY. He also completed a script reading course with The Script Factory as well as a writing/directing course with The Metropolitan Film School. Alex was awarded a Diploma in Film Making from the New York Film Academy.
Alex has produced, written and directed 2 short films, both of which have won critical acclaim. The first, CAKE, won Best Short Film at the Coventry Film Festival 2002, while his follow up, SWEET, was selected for Critics Choice at Edinburgh Fringe 2007.
