Alex Ajayi was raised in Sacramento, Ca. Moved to the Bay Area back in 2015 to pursue filmmaking and study at San Francisco State University. After graduating in 2017 he started working as a lighting technician for film sets in the Bay Area. From there he learned to skills of lighting for film to which he applied to his own work as a cinematographer. Since then he has been working on numerous indie shorts films in G&E or as an AC. This film was the first time he had to step up as a cinematographer for a feature.

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