Alex Smith is a filmmaker and writer. In 2017 Alex debuted his first feature documentary, Susanne Bartsch: On Top, which premiered at Hot Docs and went on to win the John Schlesinger award at the Provincetown International Film Festival. His work has been awarded Vimeo Staff Pick and featured on Netflix, Hulu, MTV, VH1, Vogue, Dazed, HuffPo, Rolling Stone, Paper Magazine, Bullett, Out, and Vice. Recently, Alex directed an episode of the new documentary series Pride for FX, which premiered in 2021.