Alexandra GUITÉ is a filmmaker and videojournalist whose documentary films are innovative and engaging treatments of profoundly moving human stories. She completed the Institut National de l’Image et du Son’s rigorous film direction program in 2006. She holds Master’s degrees both in Philosophy and Political Science. Versatile and focused, she can research, write, direct, film and edit provocative political and point-of-view documentaries as well as introspective portraits. She has explored a broad variety of subjects such as the aftermaths of a famous land expropriation, the radical politics of Latin-American social movements, the social power of art, noise pollution, organic agriculture, residential schools, gentrification and homelessness. In 2010, she wrote, researched, directed and coproduced the 12 films of the NFB’s award winning Web Documentary Sound Ecology. She then roamed the Arctic and Canada’s West Coast directing short documentaries for Canada’s National Broadcaster (CBC/Radio-Canada). She now works for CBC/Radio-Canada in Vancouver, where she creates every week a short riveting film on social and human issues, intimately portraying original and courageous characters.