Written and directed By: Lexi Alexander
Starring: Désiré Mia, Andy Allo, Mario D’Leon, Alex Winter, Patton Oswalt, Junes Zahdi, Julie Ann Emery, Olunike Adeliyi, Alok Vaid-Menon, John Siciliano
In the year 2063 AD, the world faces catastrophe as zealots and extremists wage a global holy war, crumbling cities and dismantling entire countries in the name of spiritual superiority. Desperate for a solution to save humanity from itself, the world’s governing bodies vote to establish a radical new form of diplomacy called The Battle of Absolute Dominion, a fierce martial-arts tournament featuring the best fighters in the world to determine a champion whose faith will govern humanity and restore peace for the future.
Born in Germany, to a Palestinian father and German mother, Lexi Alexander, a former World Kickboxing Champion, worked her way up from stunt-woman to Oscar®-nominated director with her live-action short film Johnny Flynton, a drama about a boxer. Lexi followed up her Academy Award® nomination with feature films including the SXSW Jury & Audience Award winning drama Green Street Hooligans, Marvel’s Punisher: War Zone and Lifted. She has recently sold a TV show to Blumhouse Productions and has written and directed Absolute Dominion.
Filmmaker Lexi Alexander commented: “I moved to Cork this year, after applying for a cultural visa that Ireland kindly granted me, and I moved here specifically because Hollywood became unbearable for a filmmaker with a Palestinian background. This is one of those Hollywood stories of a movie that was made against all odds. To be honest, being a Palestinian-American female filmmaker who got to make anything in Hollywood seems, especially in hindsight, against all odds.”
She continued: “Perhaps the greatest achievement of Absolute Dominion was not the fact that it got made at all or the fight scenes, but the fact that I was able to put a truly inclusive cast together and create the kind of world on screen that reflects the world I live in. A world where people don’t all look alike, don’t all pray or love alike, speak different languages, are neurodivergent, nonbinary, disabled, trans or anything else on the vast spectrum of human differences. It’s what my world has always looked like and just once I wanted to make a movie that reflects this.”
Available on Apple TV and Google from October 9th.
