ABOUT
Hacienda Films, Inc. is filmmaker and screenwriter Alex R. Johnson.
Johnson’s feature film TWO STEP premiered to critical acclaim at SXSW in 2014 and went on to become a New York Times Critic’s Pick, as well as remaining 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
His screenplay NORTHEAST KINGDOM was selected for the 2016 Black List. It was acquired by Paramount Pictures for Platinum Dunes to produce, with Johnson attached to direct.
In 2016, his screenplay ANY ROUGH TIMES ARE NOW BEHIND YOU was selected by the Austin Film Society’s Artist Intensive lab. There, he spent three days working one-on-one with late director Jonathan Demme, an experience that was as inspiring as it was creatively life changing.
Most recently, he wrote the screenplay adaptation of Ernest Tidyman’s novel, BIG BUCKS, for Pascal Pictures/Sony Entertainment.
Prior to writing and directing, Johnson was a seasoned NYC based commercial and documentary producer. He started his career at the legendary Maysles Films and then branched off to work with other directors.
In 2010, he produced the feature documentary I AM SECRETLY AN IMPORTANT MAN for filmmaker Pete Sillen.
Johnson's family hails from the Andes of Ecuador, where their 100-year-old dairy farm still operates. He tries to return at least once a year. A government brat (his father was a career FBI agent and his mother an analyst for the CIA), Alex was mostly raised in the suburbs of DC.
He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.