Alexandra Allen attended the Audiovisual Communication program at Escola Secundária Artística Soares dos Reis where she specialized in video  . She graduated in Visual Arts - Multimedia - from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, and finished her master’s degree in Illustration and Animation at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado e do Ave, where she made the short film O Chapéu (2017), winner of the Sophia Student Award in 2018.