Alexis Bicât
- Producer
- Director
- Actor
Alexis Bicât was born in London, England, to Jennifer Bicât (Gaskin), a fine art painter and clothing designer, and Tony Bicât, a playwright and film director. His father is of Chechen Muslim, Russian Jewish, and French Irish Catholic descent and his mother is mostly Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
Alexis Bicât got his start performing professionally at a young age at Chipping Norton Theatre with title roles in Aladdin, Robin Hood and Ernie's Incredible Hallucinations leading to bit parts in Christmas Present (1985) and Inappropriate Behaviour (1987).
Originally a kit drummer Alexis Bicât was classically trained on the trumpet and rose to principal trumpet in the Oxford County Orchestra and won numerous contests playing cornet for Chipping Norton Silver Band. Despite being offered the drummer's job in popular band Ride he left the Cotswolds craving the responsibility of film directing.
In London Alexis Bicât directed the Raindance Film Festival, co-directed the third largest film market in the world, composed music for Fox Children's Productions and made two multi-critically acclaimed multi-award winning theatrically released short films Noise Control (2003) and To Catch a Crow (2000). Despite the early industry success, he had no feature length screenplays to pitch and decided to leave London for California to discover his writing chops.
Slogging at the art of screenwriting whilst living between a tent on the side of a mountain in Big Sur and a home in the Hollywood Hills, Alexis Bicât worked as a bartender, carpenter, and volunteer firefighter and was accepted into an indigenous American community in the mountains of Ventura County.
On his return to the UK his heist movie was immediately snapped up by producers Barry Hanson (The Long Good Friday (1980)) and Michael Wearing (Edge of Darkness (1985)). Sadly, both Barry and Michael passed away before they could finish financing the film and Alexis Bicât left the industry to train as an MBSR(TM) facilitator under Jon Kabat-Zinn and complete a Master's in psychology (MBPsS).
Returning to the world of film Alexis Bicât now has numerous projects in varying stages of development. When not writing and directing he spends time at his home in the mountains of Northwest Wales, where he hopes to build a wind, hydro, bio and solar fuelled hydrogen battery and self-sustained organic farm village.
Alexis Bicât got his start performing professionally at a young age at Chipping Norton Theatre with title roles in Aladdin, Robin Hood and Ernie's Incredible Hallucinations leading to bit parts in Christmas Present (1985) and Inappropriate Behaviour (1987).
Originally a kit drummer Alexis Bicât was classically trained on the trumpet and rose to principal trumpet in the Oxford County Orchestra and won numerous contests playing cornet for Chipping Norton Silver Band. Despite being offered the drummer's job in popular band Ride he left the Cotswolds craving the responsibility of film directing.
In London Alexis Bicât directed the Raindance Film Festival, co-directed the third largest film market in the world, composed music for Fox Children's Productions and made two multi-critically acclaimed multi-award winning theatrically released short films Noise Control (2003) and To Catch a Crow (2000). Despite the early industry success, he had no feature length screenplays to pitch and decided to leave London for California to discover his writing chops.
Slogging at the art of screenwriting whilst living between a tent on the side of a mountain in Big Sur and a home in the Hollywood Hills, Alexis Bicât worked as a bartender, carpenter, and volunteer firefighter and was accepted into an indigenous American community in the mountains of Ventura County.
On his return to the UK his heist movie was immediately snapped up by producers Barry Hanson (The Long Good Friday (1980)) and Michael Wearing (Edge of Darkness (1985)). Sadly, both Barry and Michael passed away before they could finish financing the film and Alexis Bicât left the industry to train as an MBSR(TM) facilitator under Jon Kabat-Zinn and complete a Master's in psychology (MBPsS).
Returning to the world of film Alexis Bicât now has numerous projects in varying stages of development. When not writing and directing he spends time at his home in the mountains of Northwest Wales, where he hopes to build a wind, hydro, bio and solar fuelled hydrogen battery and self-sustained organic farm village.