Biography
Alexandre Trudeau graduated in philosophy from McGill University in 1997. Since 1998, Trudeau has produced and directed documentaries through his Montreal company, JuJu Films. In his work, he has focused on such issues as the Liberian civil war (Liberia: The Secret War), youth and democracy in Yugoslavia (Belgrade : One Year After), middle-class Baghdad during the war on Iraq (Embedded in Baghdad), the security barrier between Israel and the Palestinian territories (The Fence), the detention wthout charge of Canadian terror suspects (Secure Freedom), and on the plight of the Darfuri refugees (Refuge). Trudeau has frequently contributed to Maclean's magazine and to The Toronto Star. He is a director on the boards of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the Nature Conservancy of Canada.