Alex Rappoport is an award-winning director of photography, editor, and producer with diverse experience in film and television production. He is the cinematographer of numerous DGA Award and Emmy Award-winning documentary programs for HBO and HBO Family (with director Amy Schatz), and was among the vanguard of single-person documentary television producer/shooters in the mid-1990’s.

Early on, Alex was a cinematographer and/or editor on numerous music videos and promos for MTV, VH1, USA Network and Sci-Fi Channel. Working primarily in 16mm film, he often used multiple-exposure techniques to create layered, abstracted imagery. In 1994 he became a weekly contributor to WNET’s “City Arts” as a documentary segment producer/shooter/editor, and filmed numerous other segments. Alex directed the 1996 independent documentary short “Standpipe” Siamese and the Adventures of Frost", about artist Phil Frost. In 2000 he won a regional Emmy Award for producing the Working Dancers episode of WNET’s “Egg: The Arts Show”. Later television work includes director of photography credits on PBS’s “Going Places”; the first four seasons of History’s “Swamp People”; and season one of Discovery’s “Yukon Men”. Feature film cinematography credits include "Rhyme and Reason" (1997 dir. Peter Spirer); "Lemon" (2011 dir. Laura Brownson, Beth Levison); “Larry Kramer in Love and Anger” (2014 HBO Films, dir. Jean Carlomusto); “I Dream too Much” (2015 dir. Katie Cokinos); “If the Dancer Dances” (2018 dir. Maia Wechsler); “Esther Newton Made Me Gay” (2022 dir. Jean Carlomusto).

In 2018 Alex created Import Media LLC to better serve corporate clients and produce his own projects under the banner of an insured production entity. “With Peter Bradley” (2023), a documentary about artist Peter Bradley, is his feature directorial debut. Alex is a graduate of the University of Kansas (BA) and the University of Texas (MA). He resides in Saugerties, NY with his family.