BIO
TERESA ALFELD (she/her) is an award-winning documentary and dramatic writer/director from Vancouver, living and working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. She is a member of the Director’s Guild of Canada and DOC Canada.
Feature directing credits include the documentaries DOUG AND THE SLUGS AND ME (CBC 2022, winner of the Audience Choice award at ALFF 2023, nominated for a CSA, four Leos, and two VCFC awards), and THE RANKIN FILE: LEGACY OF A RADICAL (Opening Night Gala Film at DOXA 2018, Knowledge Network premiere 2019).
Recent short film directing credits include the upcoming comedy drama TOE PICK (produced through Vancouver’s prestigious Crazy 8s Film Festival, 2024), the short comedy drama BOSSBABE (Audience Choice Runner Up at Cinema Spectacular 2023), the short comedy DAVID FOSTER’S EGGGPAA starring David Foster and Katharine McPhee (NFB 2022), and the short documentary JEAN SWANSON: WE NEED A NEW MAP (Hot Docs 2021, VIFF 2021).
Teresa recently completed the Women In the Director’s Chair Career Advancement Module, led by Dr. Carol Whiteman.
Teresa holds a BFA in Film Production (SFU 2010), a Master’s in Dispute Resolution (UVic 2017), and – as a teenager - once helped build a pirate TV tower, successfully knocking out the CBC’s signal in the area for nearly ten minutes, in order to broadcast her and her colleagues’ programs (Teresa’s program was a dirtbag dating show called Hookin’ It Up: East Van Style).
With a keen interest in music, comedy, and social justice, Teresa is currently in post-production on the Telus Originals short documentary HEARSE CHASING, and is developing several projects including an aughts-era music dramedy series and a feature documentary about a controversial Canadian media personality.