Alexandre Trudeau

As a filmmaker, and more recently as a special correspondent for Maclean’s magazine, Alexandre Trudeau has reported from the world’s most troubled, war-torn regions including the former Yugoslavia, Liberia and Iraq.

His full-length documentary, Embedded in Baghdad (shot, produced and told by Trudeau himself over a 40-day stay in Baghdad), is an intensely personal snapshot of a middle-class family struggling to make sense of the U.S.-led attack on their country. The film premiered in English on CTV’s W5 and in French on Radio-Canada in the fall of 2003.

Trudeau first emerged as a filmmaker in 1999 when he was chosen to be one of seven bilingual videographers involved in Culture Shock/Culture Choc, a 13-part series on CBC Newsworld and Radio-Canada’s RDI.

He holds a degree in philosophy from McGill University and is a board member for Canada World Youth and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.