ALFF CREATOR TALK: Documentary Storytelling Panel

This event took place on Monday, February 13, 2023 at 5:00 pmYukon Theatre

Free Admission.

Four filmmakers with documentaries in the festival share insights into their creative approach to making their documentary. In conversation with festival senior programmer, Kinga Binkowska.

Panelists:

Teresa Alfeld, Doug and the Slugs and Me

Hayley Gray and Elda Tzadok, Unarchived

David Curtis, The Ballad of Caveman Bill

Teresa Alfeld (she/her) is an award-winning 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 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. 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).

Elad Tzadok is an award-winning director (DGC), producer and editor with a background in development and marketing. Born and raised in Israel, Elad moved to Vancouver, where he graduated from the Film Production Program at UBC and co-founded Scopitone Films. He has produced, directed and edited music videos, commercials, narrative films and documentaries.

Hayley Gray is a Vancouver-based director (DGC), writer and producer. A graduate of Dalhousie University and Vancouver Film School, she has written and directed documentary, narrative and commercial work. Hayley’s award-winning films have travelled to festivals around the world and aired on Telus Optik, the Knowledge Network, CBC and Air Canada.

David Curtis is an off-grid dwelling filmmaker, artist, commercial fisher and carpenter who has had the honour of living in Dawson City, within the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territories, Yukon for the past 24 years. In all aspects of his life he nurtures a close relationship to nature, kairos and laughter.