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Alex obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned the Merit Scholarship. Under the mentorship of Chris Sullivan and Nancy Andrews, he specialized in Stop-Motion Animation, a technique that animates inanimate objects through a sequence of small positional changes to create the illusion of natural movement. For his thesis film, Alex was awarded the James Nelson Raymond Graduate Fellowship.
Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's films and Fyodor Dostoevsky's novels, Alex's debut stop-motion film, Wolves at the Table, won Best Animation at the Knoxville Valleyfest Film Festival and Best Experimental Film at the L.A. Indie Talent Awards. Over time, he has directed animation for various projects, including Walt Disney's Annie Award-nominated JoJo's Circus (2003) and Teletoon's Gemini Award-winning series Life's a Zoo (2008).
Supported by Canada's Cuppa Coffee Studios, Alex directed and animated The Devil's Due (2011), a surreal short film notable for its use of a continuously moving camera and a choreographed sequence featuring over seventy characters. The film is rich with in-camera special effects and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. It also won a Gold Remi Award at Houston's International Film Festival for Best Independent Animated Short Film.
Alex is married to CG Supervisor and actress Mahsa Ghorbankarimi. In 2015, the couple produced their first feature film, Luciferous, an art-house thriller that won several Best Horror Feature awards. Their daughter, Mina Gorelick, began her career in the film industry in 2013 by voicing two Sesame Street short films. Mina's impressive performance in Luciferous earned her a Special Jury Award at the Torremolinos International Film Festival in Spain.
Born in the former Soviet Union, Alex's family immigrated to Canada via Italy in 1979 when he was six years old. Originally from Belarus, his father Lev Gorelick was a chef, and his mother Klara was a dentist. His sister Irena works as a teacher.
As a youth, Alex competed in cross-country running and played as a goaltender for the Windsor Nationals hockey team. At sixteen, he represented one of Canada's basketball teams at the North American Maccabi Youth Olympic Games in Chicago. He was valedictorian at Vincent Massey High School, graduating with several academic-athletic bursaries.
In 1996, Alex earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Windsor, where he was awarded the Board of Governors Medal for the highest academic standing in the School of Visual Arts.
