Alexandra Gaulupeau - Documentary Filmmaker
Films
Strong Women
3 x 30min - Completed
Funded by Screen Australia, ABC and VicScreen
A powerful and resilient group of women support and empower each other while rivalling to become Australia's strongest woman.
"Strong Women wears its heart proudly on its sleeve - which is, in itself an impressive show of strength"
- The Weekend Australian
Croc Queen: Who Killed Lizzie?
2 x 1hr - Late development
Received VicScreen Development grant
Icon Lizzie the Croc Queen is brutally murdered. An Instagram sleuth and local PI investigate, uncovering politics, crime and conservation wars, realising the killer is only part of the threat ahead.
Cuddle or Die
Feature - Late development
A feminist researcher joins an all-boys rite of passage expedition in the harsh Canadian Rockies to explore the meaning of “positive masculinity” and its role in preventing gender-based violence.
Life at a Snail's Pace
23min - Completed
Marla Coppolino is on a mission to enlighten you to the plight of the lowly land snail through creative, bizarre and unconventional means.
"I will be loathe to ever step on a snail again"
- Medium
Awards and Festivals
AWARDS
2021 - AACTA Best Short Form Entertainment (Strong Women)
2017 - EDA Award for Best Female Directed Short Film at DOXA (Life at a Snail's Pace)
2016 - BUFVC's Learning on Screen Student Production Documentary Award (Life at a Snail's Pace)FESTIVALS
Life at a Snail's Pace
2016 - Hot Docs
2016 - London Short Film Festival
2016 - Palm Springs Int ShortFest
2016 - Gold of Heart International Short Film Festival
2016 - Environmental Film Festival Australia
2016 - Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
2017 - Festival International du Documentaire Emergent
2017 - DOXA
2017 - Free Range Film Festival
2018 - Salt Spring Film Festival
Press
Strong Women
Channel 9 News Melbourne, Weekend ABC Breakfast TV, ABC Radio National, ABC Grandstand, The Age, Women's Health, Geelong Indepent, Wollondilly Advertiser, The Curb, FilmInk, and more.Life at a Snail's Pace
We are moving stories, Medium and The Female Gaze.
Biography
Alexandra Gaulupeau is a documentary filmmaker, based in Melbourne, who seeks to give a voice to the often unheard or marginalized and to challenge the common perception of the world. She has a knack for finding amazing and unusual stories in the unlikeliest of places and looks for the links between us all, be it human or mollusk!
She holds a MA in Screen Documentary at Goldsmiths University and a Masters in Global Media Communications from the University of Melbourne.