Alexander Winn

Who is Alexander Winn?

Alexander Winn is an American writer, producer, and director of live-action and machinima films. Winn is best known as one of the two founding members of Edgeworks Entertainment, and as the writer, director, co-producer and composer of the award-winning Halo machinima series The Codex Series, which consists of The Codex, released in 2005, and its prequel, The Heretic, released in 2007. He is a Presidential Scholar at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, majoring in film and minoring in Classics.

Winn gained recognition as a young filmmaker while still a senior in high school when two of his student films, Baggage Claim and Jack O'Neill - Private Detective, won a total of 14 film festival awards including a Platinum REMI Award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival for Baggage Claim and a CINE Golden Eagle Award for Jack O'Neill - Private Detective, making him the only high school student in the world to be awarded the CINE Golden Eagle for an individually produced project that year.