Alex Halpern attended the Instituto De Science Cinematografice in Florence, Italy and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where his short film “Zelda, Catwoman of Queens” won awards at the NYU Film Festival, as well as a Student Academy Award for Best Experimental Film. His writing and directing credits for television include MTV’s “You Wrote It, You Watch It,” as well as commercials and music videos, including Tripping Daisy’s “Blown Away,” the first stop-motion animated music video. Alex lives in New York where he owns Pickled Punk Pictures and Post Factory, a downtown editorial facility specializing in both commercials and feature films, and is a founding partner (with Alex Winter) of Hyena Films, a commercial production company. NINE GOOD TEETH is his first documentary feature.