Whitefalk films

Alex White is a multi-award winning producer and founder of Whitefalk Films.

In 2014 Alex produced the short film FLORENCE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING starring Jacki Weaver with writer/director Mirrah Foulkes which was awarded the 2015 Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts (AACTA) Award for Best Short Fiction Film. In 2016 Alex produced TRESPASS also with Foulkes. TRESPASS won the prize for Best Australian Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival and has its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Alex’s other short film credits include MEASURING THE JUMP, which is loosely based on a short story by the American author Dave Eggers with writer/director Eden Falk and HOW TO GET CLEAN also with Falk based on Rita Kalnejais’ short play HOW TO GET (VERY) CLEAN.

In 2015 Alex was the associate producer on Simon Stone’s debut feature film, THE DAUGHTER. Alex has also worked alongside producer Jan Chapman (The Piano, Lantana) at her development company Waking Dream Productions and they were also the recipients of Screen Australia’s inaugural Enterprise People funding. 

BABYTEETH starring Eliza Scanlan, Toby Wallace, Essie Davis and Ben Mendelsohn marks Alex’s debut feature film. BABYTEETH was directed by Shannon Murphy, written by Rita Kalnejais with Jan Chapman as Executive Producer. The film had its international premiere In Competition at the Venice International Film Festival in 2019 where it was awarded the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor to Toby Wallace as well as the The Bisato d’Oro prize.

BABYTEETH has released in over 28 territories and has screened at numerous international festivals including the Venice International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Films Festival, New Directors/New Films presented by Film at Lincoln Centre and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

BABYTEETH has won multiple awards and in 2020 it was nominated for a record breaking 13 Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts (AACTA) Awards and was the recipient of 9 awards including Best Films, Best Director and Best Screenplay.  BABYTEETH received a special mention at the Zurich International Film Festival, won the People's Choice Award for Best Film at the Pingyao International Film Festival in China, the Jury prize of the New Filmmakers Competition of São Paulo International Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Zagreb Film Festival, Best Actor to Toby Wallace at the 2019 Marrakech International Film Festival, the Grand Prize at both the Transylvanian International Film Festival and the Internationale Competition of the Brussels International Film Festival and One To Watch for Director Shannon Murphy at the 2019 Palm Springs International Film Festival. In 2021 Babyteeth has been long listed for three BAFTA Awards including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Casting.

In 2020 Alex joined Sydney production company Causeway Films (The Babadook, Cargo, Buoyancy, The Nightingale) as their development producer.

Eden Falk is a Director, Writer, Actor and Teacher based in Sydney. From 2006 - 2009 he was part of the Actors Company, the full-time ensemble of the Sydney Theatre Company under the Artistic Directorship of Robyn Nevin followed by Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton.

Recent credits as an actor include THE ASTRAL PLAIN at Belvoir, KILL CLIMATE DENIERS at Griffin Theatre Company, THE GREAT FIRE and A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Belvoir and MACBETH at Sydney Theatre Company. He appeared in the film SLEEPING BEAUTY which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, Baz Luhrmann’s THE GREAT GATSBY, Simon Stone’s debut THE DAUGHTER and most recently in ABCTV’s RIOT.

As director he has adapted and directed Ingmar Bergman’s HOUR OF THE WOLF for WAAPA, SAFETY SWITCH for the Old Fitzroy Theatre and ERA OF A NEW PARADISE for Griffin Theatre Company’s Batch Festival.

In 2015 he received Metro Screens First Breaks Funding initiative to make his first short film, HOW TO GET CLEAN and in 2016 received the Screen NSW Emerging Filmmaker Fund to make his second, MEASURING THE JUMP, which he adapted from a short story by the American writer Dave Eggers. The film played at the Academy Accredited Flickerfest, Balinale and St Kilda Film Festivals in 2018 and his most recent short film MR BUBBLES recently premiered at Flickerfest in 2020.

In 2020 Eden was the Screen Australia Directors Attachment and Acting Couch on Archibald Award Winner Visual Artist Del Kathryn Batron’s debut feature film BLAZE starring Simon Baker, Yael Stone, Josh Lawson and introducing Julia Savage.