Rachel Alana Handler

Rachel Alana Handler

Rachel Alana Handler is an actor and filmmaker based in NYC. Most recently she won the AT&T Underrepresented Filmmaker Award and the Sundance Co//ab June Monthly Challenge. Since joining the disabled community she's found a passion for writing and directing; advocating for inclusion in every project she creates. Her writing/directing credits include the award-winning short films, The Housewarming, Committed, The Vanished, and Authentically Me which won the Reelabilities 27 Second Film Competition and screened in taxi cabs throughout NYC. Handler's screen acting credits include Law & Order: SVU, Goliath, New Amsterdam and NCIS: New Orleans. Some of her favorite stage credits include Marian in The Music Man, Lady Anne in Richard III and Maria in The Sound of Music.

Movies

Interview with the Vampire
  • Oct 02, 2022
  • English
Louis de Pointe’s epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to the journalist Daniel Molloy. Chafing at the limitations of life as a black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat De Lioncourt’s offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion.
The Upside
  • Jan 10, 2019
  • OST
Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his young son. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom.