Alice has worked in a variety of formats from shorts to feature docs for the likes of the BBC, Channel 4 and Vice News. She has worked on flagship current affairs strands Panorama and Dispatches, and her films have screened at festivals worldwide.
Men Buy Sex was her first short film which won the SIMA Creative Activism Award and well as Vimeo Staff Picks Best of the Month. Her second film, Agents of Change, was selected as a festival focus at Sheffield DocFest 2017.
Alice's debut feature documentary, If the Streets Were on Fire, had its world premiere at the 66th BFI London Film Festival where it came second in the Audience Award, followed by a limited theatrical release, and broadcast premiere on BBC Storyville. It is available to stream on BBC iPlayer now, and recently won the Best Feature Documentary and Raindance Maverick awards at the British Independent Film Awards 2023.
Film London Lodestar 2023
BIFA Springboard Participant 2022/2023
BFI Network x BAFTA Crew Mentee 2020
Intriguing. I like that the film creates an evolving space for spectators... I look forward to seeing more works from Alice Russell. I hope she continues to use complexity of the visible/invisible nature of life & cinema to confront us
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Director of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
