Bespoke Works LLC is a film production company based in Shreveport, Louisiana.
In 2015, our film The Bespoke Tailoring of Mister Bellamy won the 2015 Louisiana Film Prize. “Bespoke” went on to garner awards across the festival circuit, including the Programmer’s Choice Award at the Cleveland International Film Festival, and qualified for the 2016 Academy Awards.
Since then, Alexander Jeffery and Paul Petersen have been working together to create narrative and branded stories, looking to give each work a cinematic touch.
In 2020, Bespoke Works produced our first feature film: A Chance Encounter. Set against the beautiful backdrop of Taormina, Sicily, A Chance Encounter stars Paul Petersen and Andrea von Kampen and was directed by Alexander Jeffery. A Chance Encounter is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and Vudu after receiving distribution from Samuel Goldwyn Films.
In 2021, we began producing our first feature-length documentary, You Have No Idea, which premiered at the prestigious, Academy-qualifying Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and won the Audience Choice Award for Best Southern Feature.
Alexander Jeffery
Alexander Jeffery hails from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, was raised in El Dorado, Arkansas and is now based in Shreveport, Louisiana where he co-owns the production company Bespoke Works LLC with his friend and longtime collaborator, Paul Petersen. After receiving a double major in Theatre Performance and Film & New Media from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2011, Alexander moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams of acting and filmmaking. Quickly realizing Los Angeles wasn’t the right fit for him, Alexander moved back to the south to make low-budget, independent films with his friends.
His first feature film, A Chance Encounter, was released by Samuel Goldwyn Films in October of 2022, both theatrically and on-demand, after winning the audience choice award at Heartland Film Festival in 2020. In 2015, his short film The Bespoke Tailoring of Mister Bellamy won the $50,000 Grand Prize at the Louisiana Film Prize. MTV called it “an acutely relevant, achingly human film.” Alexander’s latest feature, Days of Daisy, was recently picked up for distribution by Good Deed Entertainment, and his first feature-length documentary, You Have No Idea, won the Audience Choice award for Best Southern Feature at the Oscar-qualifying Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in 2022.
PAUL PETERSEN
Experienced in narrative film production, documentary filmmaking and corporate spotlights, Paul has gained industry experience in filmmaking over the last 10 years. Along with Alexander Jeffery, he owns the production company Bespoke Works LLC which is based in Shreveport, LA. He is the co-producer of You Have No Idea, a documentary feature revolving around one family's experience with Autism. He can also be seen On-Demand in the independent romance A Chance Encounter which was recently distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films. Paul also co-wrote and produced the upcoming horror film called Hangman that's set to release later this year.