Alison McAlpine

Bio:

Alison McAlpine is a filmmaker and writer based in Montréal, Canada. She began her career as a published poet, inspired by family tales and the oral traditions of British Columbia where she grew up. Discovering theatre in Ireland, she founded a performance company, writing and directing several music-theatre works which toured Canada and Europe. Blending and blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction, McAlpine’s work explores hybrid, innovative approaches to narrative with a strong emphasis on character and landscape, with the musicality and associations of sounds and images playing a key role.