Rate My Professor Alessandra Bautze

Alessandra Bautze is Assistant Professor of Screenwriting in the School of Film, Media & Theatre at Georgia State University. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from the University of Texas at Austin and her Bachelor of Arts in The Writing Seminars and Film & Media Studies from The Johns Hopkins University. Prior to her appointment at Georgia State in 2022, Bautze served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Screenwriting at the University of Iowa for two years. Her creative practice centers on screenwriting that reflects the rich diversity of the American experience, employing a socially-conscious and realist narrative style. Beyond her writing, she contributes as a script consultant, including recent work with SignWorld Studios, a Deaf-owned production company committed to creating authentic content in American Sign Language and English. Bautze is passionate about the role of language in bridging communities.

Her acclaimed screenplay "Racing the Wolf God," set in Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, portrays a Yup’ik woman's challenges upon re-entering society after prison through dogsled racing; it won Best Screenplay at the 2021 Anchorage International Film Festival, Best Feature Screenplay at the 2022 Good Dog! International Film Festival in Sydney, was a semi-finalist in the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting (140 out of 5,526 entries), and received second-round consideration for the 2023 Sundance Development Track. Other significant works include "Hijrah Girls" (finalist, BlueCat 2026; top 50 ISA Fast Track 2026), "Saving Shenandoah" (silver award, Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest 2015), "Impediment" (third place, Women in Film and Video New England 2021), and "What Sophie Saw" (runner-up Stephen Dixon Award; optioned; produced with PURA grant). Bautze has been awarded residencies at Nanjing International Writers’ (2021), Storyknife (2022), Mountain Words (2023), and Kimmel Harding Nelson (2024). She was the 2023 Tangerine Entertainment Fellow at Stowe Story Labs and named Faculty of the Year for 2024-25 by her school.