Alex Kustanovich
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Screenwriting
Originally from Belarus, Alex Kustanovich is a film and television writer, screenwriting instructor and story consultant. He has written feature films for producers in the US, Canada, Germany, Estonia, Israel, Japan and Russia. Several of the films have been produced and a television show he co-created is currently under option with Eitelsonnenschein, a production company in Berlin, Germany.
He’s been a screenwriting instructor at the college level for over twenty years, and is currently mentoring screenwriting students in the MFA in Creative Writing program at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY, and in the MFA in Screenwriting program at the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts (online). He has conducted writing workshops in New York City, Tallinn, Estonia, and Moscow, Russia.
Alex has a BFA in Film Production from NYU, a screenwriting certificate from AFI and an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA.