Teresa Alfeld

Teresa Alfeld is a director from Vancouver and 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 the Documentary Organization of Canada. Teresa is drawn to complex characters navigating complicated worlds, and her films embrace both the humour and pathos of the human experience. Teresa's feature documentary The Rankin File: Legacy of a Radical (produced with Opus 59 Films) was the opening night gala film at DOXA Documentary Film Festival in 2018, with further screenings in Seattle, Vancouver, and across BC. The Rankin File had its broadcast premiere on The Knowledge Network in 2019. Teresa has written and directed several award-winning short comedy-dramas including Closet Carnivore (2004), Charlie Gauvin (2012) and Roadkill (2013), which have screened at film festivals across Canada including Out on Screen, The Female Eye Film Festival, and the Women in Film Toronto Short Film Showcase. Teresa will be directing her second feature documentary Doug and the Slugs and Me for CBC Documentary Channel (with Opus 59 Films) in early 2021. She has several other projects in development (both documentary and scripted). Teresa holds a BFA in Film Production from SFU (2010) and a Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution from UVic (2017). Her project interests include politics, comedy, music, healthcare, and social justice. Teresa has lived with Type 1 diabetes since 1994, and finds that living with a chronic illness imparts a fair bit of empathy, patience, and humour in all that she does. When not working, Teresa can be found out hiking with her husband, playing piano poorly, drinking cider competently, competing in trivia (and trivial) games, hoarding scratch-and-win tickets, and raising her very cute yet violent cat Franklin D. Catsvelt.