Alexander McNab is a screenwriter and director telling stories rooted in African diaspora folktales. As a USC film production MFA, he created a range of Black-folktale-inspired shorts using green screen, motion capture, Unreal Engine, generative AI, and stop motion. He has written six feature-length folktale films and organizes a weekly screenwriters’ group modeled after USC’s feature writing classes. His work has screened at the Micheaux Film Festival, the SCA Generative Imaging Film Festival, and the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival. His first short film was featured in Downtown Community Television Center’s Best of PRO-TV 2019. In his current practice, he draws on his background in journalism and training in narrative filmmaking to tell grounded, semi-documentary stories. His films adapt the cultural and familial tales he wishes he’d grown up with—making Blackness visible and making himself seen.