Alexander Roberto Minas, a 24-year-old Mexican-Armenian resident of Sacramento, California, first expressed interest in film at an early age when asking questions such as “how does the camera do that?”, “what’s a camera trick?” and “that monster isn’t real?”. While growing up in Sacramento, it never occurred to him that he can make a career out of these concepts. Yet after taking a very basic film theory class in his last year of high school, he was hooked. It was not long after that he transferred to San Francisco State University from CSU Sacramento where he went on to take film production and theory classes, declaring himself as a Cinema Major. There he studied under film veteran Jameson Goldner and independent film producer Stephen Ujlaki. It was also there where Minas experimented with various forms of film and became actively involved with student projects working in front and behind the camera. In a 16mm film production class, Minas directed his very first student short film called “The Mad Java Party”, a take on the “Mad Tea Party” concept from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”. It involved a college girl dreaming about running late to her final exam but mixing her priorities by trying to get coffee at the same time. Admist a busy college campus, the girl sits with two drag queens who seem to have an abundance of coffee. They do nothing to make her situation easier by preventing her from enjoying the hot java and making her late for her finals. As a final project in his senior year, Minas adapted and directed a short excerpt from Steven Spielberg’s “Poltergeist”, using professional actors from a bay area film network, the on-campus soundstage, and a crew of several talented and eager film students. The objective of the semester-long project was for students to pick an excerpt of any screenplay and adapt it to his or her own individual directorial vision. This was the also the project when he first collaborated with his musician father, Phil Minas, for sound mixing and scoring. In 2005, Minas accomplished his Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinema from San Francisco State University. Since then, Minas has been involved in short film competitions such as the 72 hour film competition hosted by the Asian American Film Lab and Asian CineVision, working as an assistant director to the short film “Disorder”, a production that Minas collaborated with an Asian American independent film and theater company called “Zeitgeist Artworks”. The film displayed a love story that involved two young adults with obsessive compulsive disorder. Presently, Minas has begun a small film production company called “Cautionary Productions” in which he has produced and directed his own first short as an amateur filmmaker entitled “Free Delivery”. It is a short horror/suspense film involving a girl, pizza guys, and bloody death. His next projects will include another horror/suspense short about nightmares and a feature documentary on the ex-owner of the iconic Tower Records. Minas currently resides in Sacramento, CA.