LOGLINE: IN THE EFFORTS TO GAIN RESPECT FROM HER MOTHER, THE MOST REPUTABLE CHAIRMAN IN THE JAPANESE DIET, A YOUNG POLITICIAN WILL GO TO ANY EXTREME TO "CLEANSE" TOKYO OF ITS HOMELESS POPULATION IN THE COMMUNITY OF DEMON'S GATE BEFORE THE NEXT CENSUS THREATENS THEIR POLITICAL STATUS. 

DEVELOPMENT: "DEMON'S GATE" WAS DEVELOPED AS PART OF THE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL THESIS PROJECT. GHETTO FILM SCHOOL ANNOUNCED A SHORT FILM WOULD BE SHOT IN TOKYO AND IS ENTIRELY IN JAPANESE. ALEXI'S SCRIPT WAS SELECTED TO GO INTO PRODUCTION. THROUGH A PITCHING PROCESS, SHE WAS THEN AWARDED DIRECTORSHIP, MAKING HER THE FIRST THESIS WRITER/DIRECTOR IN GHETTO FILM SCHOOL HISTORY. 

PREMIERE: "DEMON'S GATE" PREMIERED AT THE HAMMER MUSEUM IN LOS ANGELES, OCTOBER 2015. OSCAR-NOMINATED DIRECTOR DAVID O. RUSSELL AND TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX CHAIRMAN AND CEO JIM GIANOPULOS ENTHUSIASTICALLY HOSTED THE EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE. "DEMON'S GATE" PREMIERED TO THE WORLD AT THE 2016 BENTONVILLE FILM FESTIVAL OPENING FOR OSCAR NOMINATED FILM "NEBRASKA." MOST RECENTLY, "DEMON'S GATE" WAS AMONGST THE FIVE SHORT FILMS TO SCREEN AT THE SOHO HOUSE AS PART OF THE CAA SHORT FILM INITIATIVE.