OmniTRAX/Broe Quest Series
Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau
Filmmaker &
Director, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and of Canada World Youth boards
Alexandre Trudeau graduated with a philosophy degree from McGill University in Montréal. Upon completing his studies, in 1998, he went on to co-direct an experimental project about the Liberian civil war: Liberia. The Secret War..
From 1998 to 2000, Alexandre worked as a videographer and reporter on the bilingual CBC Newsworld/RDI program “Culture Shock”. In his reports, he focused mainly on Canadian Aboriginal issues.
In 2000, Alexandre reported on the democratic hopes and despairs of the Yugoslavian youth. His report aired on CBC’s The National Magazine.
In 2003, Alexandre produced and directed his first full length documentary Embedded in Baghdad. Shot over six weeks, during the U.S. led war on Iraq, Embedded is the intimate journal of the filmmaker living with a middle-class Iraqi family. The film explores the true meaning of the war for civilians caught at its epicentre.
Produced in 2004, The Fence is Alexandre’s second documentary. In this film, Alexandre is embedded with two families on opposing sides of the newly erected security barrier between Israel and the Palestinian territories. Alexandre is also a contributing editor at Canada’s national news magazine Maclean’s. He has reported from Iraq, Liberia, Haiti, Israel, and Chechnya.
He is a director on the board of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and of Canada World Youth.