Teresa Alfeld

Teresa Alfeld is an award-winning Writer/Director from Vancouver, BC with over ten years’ experience writing and directing both documentary and scripted films.

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 (finalist in Vancouver’s prestigious Crazy 8s Film Festival, premiering April 20th 2024), the short comedy drama BOSSBABE (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 esteemed 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), is fluent in French, 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 pre-production on the Telus Originals short documentary HEARSE CHASING, and is developing several projects including a dramedy television series and a feature documentary about a controversial Canadian media personality.