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name: "Alex Kotlowitz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alex-kotlowitz"
roles: ["Producer","Writer"]
born: "21 March 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:11:21.143776+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alex Kotlowitz

Producer and writer. Born 21 March 1955 in New York City.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Writer
- **Born:** 21 March 1955, New York City
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4717316, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0467735/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/566957

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Interrupters*](https://film.one/film/the-interrupters.md) (78)

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## Biography

Alex Kotlowitz is an American journalist, author and filmmaker. He is the author of several books, including the 1991 national bestseller *There Are No Children Here*, which was adapted as a television film produced by and starring Oprah Winfrey. His other works include *The Other Side of the River* (1998) and *An American Summer* (2019).

A former staff writer at *The Wall Street Journal* (1984–1993), Kotlowitz has contributed to *The New Yorker*, *The New York Times Magazine* and *This American Life*. He co-produced the 2011 documentary *The Interrupters* with Steve James, based on his *New York Times Magazine* article; the film premiered at Sundance, aired on PBS’s *Frontline* and received an Emmy, an Independent Spirit Award and a Cinema Eye Award.

Kotlowitz grew up in New York City and attended Wesleyan University. He is a professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

*Sources: alexkotlowitz.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Interrupters* (2011), Fi1m 78, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-interrupters.md)

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