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 one CSA, four Leos, and two VCFC awards), and THE RANKIN FILE: LEGACY OF A RADICAL (Opening Night Selection at DOXA 2018, Knowledge Network premiere 2019).
Recent mid-length and short film directing credits include the Telus originals documentary HEARSE CHASING (CUFF Docs 2025), the Leo Award nominated Crazy 8s comedy drama TOE PICK (Vancouver International Youth Film Festival Opening Night Selection 2025 and Best Actress Award winner), the short comedy drama BOSSBABE (Audience Choice Award Runner Up at Cinema Spectacular 2023), the short comedy DAVID FOSTER’S EGGGPAA starring David Foster and Katharine McPhee (NFB Commission, 2022), and the short documentary JEAN SWANSON: WE NEED A NEW MAP (Crave, 2022).
Teresa was the 2025 Women In the Director’s Chair BANFF Fellowship Recipient.
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 developing several projects including an aughts-era music dramedy series and a feature documentary about a beloved Canadian media icon.