Bodine Alexander Boling (born August 16, 1982) is an American writer and filmmaker. She is best known for writing, producing, starring in and editing the independent science fiction feature ''
Movement and Location''.
Early life
Boling was born and raised on the eastern shore of Maryland, attending
Saints Peter and Paul High School in Easton, MD.
Career
In 2001, Boling (as Bodine Alexander) starred in "Riders", which was written and directed by Doug Sadler and premiered at the
Los Angeles Film Festival
The LA Film Festival was an annual film festival that was held in Los Angeles, California, and usually took place in June. It showcased independent, international, feature, documentary and short films, as well as web series, music videos, episodi ...
. The film later aired on the Sundance Channel.
In 2005, Boling (as Alex Orban) appeared in ''
Swimmers (film)'', another independent feature film written and directed by Doug Sadler, which premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival
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The festival has acted ...
.
Boling wrote, produced, starred in and edited the independent science fiction feature film ''Movement and Location''. It was a joint project with her husband Alexis Boling, through his production company Harmonium Films and Music.
The film premiered at the
Brooklyn Film Festival
The Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), prior to 2011 called the Brooklyn International Film Festival (BiFF) is an independent film festival held every June in New York City.
Started by Marco Ursino, Susan Mackell, Abe Schrager, and Mario Pegoraro in ...
in 2014, where it won the Audience Award, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score. Other festivals of note include
Indie Memphis (2014), where it won the Ron Tibbett Excellence in Filmmaking Award and Best Poster, and the Rome International Film Festival (2014), where it won Best Narrative Feature and the Audience Award. It also played the
Atlanta Film Festival
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and
Sci-Fi-London
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, both in 2015.
In 2019, Boling joined the staff of radio show
Live From Here
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as creative director and announcer.
Personal life
Boling married filmmaker Alexis Boling on September 12, 2009 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York. Michael Yates Crowley officiated and
Vampire Weekend
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played the reception.
Her grandfather is photographer
A. Aubrey Bodine.
References
External links
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Living people
American women screenwriters
Actresses from Maryland
1982 births
21st-century American women