Writing

Alex Boya

Known for

Writing

Credits

6 titles

Alex Boya is a Bulgarian-born Canadian animator based in Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted for his 2025 short film Bread Will Walk, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short at the 14th Canadian Screen Awards in 2026.

Known for

Behind the camera

Turbine poster
4.0

A war pilot crash-lands through his apartment window. When his wife returns from work, she discovers that her husband’s face has been replaced by an airplane turbine. He’s also fallen in love with their kitchen ceiling fan. To save their faltering marriage, his wife decides she will no longer let her humanity get in the way of love.

Turbine

2018

Bread Will Walk poster
4.5

A devoted sister flees with her brother, a benevolent, bread-turned zombie. A mob pursues, mouths agape. Streets twist into mazes, reason dissolves, hunger reigns. Can love defy appetite?

Bread Will Walk

2025

Bread Will Walk poster
4.5

A devoted sister flees with her brother, a benevolent, bread-turned zombie. A mob pursues, mouths agape. Streets twist into mazes, reason dissolves, hunger reigns. Can love defy appetite?

Bread Will Walk

2025

Animation Week 80th Anniversary of the NFB poster
NR

"On the Occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the NFB, A Combined Occurrence on Halloween, I extruded, in my expressionist medical style, a terrifying anatomy of the creative process of animated filmmakers, as a tribute to the NFB's Golden Age, with the help and invaluable records of author Donald McWilliams."— Alex Boya

Animation Week 80th Anniversary of the NFB

2019

Focus poster
6.2

A 1-minute cart ride through the mental shopping mall of attention deficit disorder. Inspired by found sound of a shopper’s vlog, hand-drawn without a light table, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Focus

2014

Focus poster
6.2

A 1-minute cart ride through the mental shopping mall of attention deficit disorder. Inspired by found sound of a shopper’s vlog, hand-drawn without a light table, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Focus

2014