Nikki Newstead gets sucked into the slippery world of multi-level marketing, and is about to get more than she bargained for.
Teresa Alfeld (she/her) is an award-winning writer/director from Vancouver. She is a member of the Director’s Guild of Canada, and the Documentary Organization of Canada.Â
Directing credits include the feature documentaries DOUG AND THE SLUGS AND ME (Closing Night Gala film at DOXA 2022, premiered on CBC January 2023), and THE RANKIN FILE: LEGACY OF A RADICAL (opening night film at DOXA 2018, broadcast premiere on Knowledge Network 2019), the short documentary JEAN SWANSON: WE NEED A NEW MAP (Hot Docs 2021, VIFF 2021) and short dramatic films ROADKILL (Canadian Film Fest 2013), CHARLIE GAUVIN (Female Eye Film Festival 2012), and BUNKY THE VAMPIRE KILLER (Toronto Independent Film Festival 2010).Â
Teresa recently premiered the short comedy DAVID FOSTER’S EGGGPAA (NFB 2022) starring David Foster and Katharine McPhee at the Governor General Awards ceremony in Ottawa.Â
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 national broadcaster’s signal for nearly ten minutes to broadcast her and her colleagues’ content (Teresa’s program was a dirtbag dating show called Hookin’ It Up: East Van Style).
You may have seen Teresa's feature doc Doug and the Slugs and Me on CBC and CBC Gem recently, and it was recently nominated by the Vancouver Critics Circle for best BC film and best BC director! We're excited to be premiering BOSSBABE at our final festival!
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