“HEARTS AND MINDS”
Alexandra Hensley
Drama Feature
While on deployment in Afghanistan an independent female Marine’s dreams of combat are thwarted when she is ordered to help build a school for local children.
Alexandra Hensley. Marine Corps Veteran Alexandra Hensley is a recent graduate of USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program. While at USC Alexandra was awarded the Stark Special Production Grant to write and direct the short film In the Gray which centered a born-again Christian mother of five who decides to have an abortion. In the Gray has been selected to screen at multiple film festivals, including Beverly Hills Film Festival, Vail Film Festival, and the Catalina Film Festival. Alexandra’s creative focus are stories that center women in their infinite complexities while examining how women hold power in a patriarchal world. With her first feature Hearts and Minds, Alexandra tells a war story from the female perspective, she hopes to create a space to have a more nuanced and open conversation about the far-reaching impact of the United States’ industrial war complex.
