A Mexican-Canadian filmmaker and storyteller, Alba has worked worldwide and is passionate about languages, street food and books.
ALBA GIL / FILMMAKER & STORYTELLER
Primera luz del día, antes de salir el sol.
(Del lat. alba, femenino de albus, blanco.)
As a noun
alba means the first appearance of daylight in the morning; the beginning or rise of anything.
As a verb
alba means to begin to open or develop; to begin to be realized, seen, or understood.
Alba is committed to create content that starts conversations, raises questions, celebrates DIVERSITY, honours NATURE, and empowers POSITIVE CHANGE.
her work
Alba’s stories are nurtured from an openhearted and curious gaze that captures sincere moments. She’s always looking for new stories to tell and unique ways to tell them.
demo reel / Alba gil
The Secret of the River
is a Mexican mystery-drama series following two childhood friends in Oaxaca bonded by a dark, accidental tragedy. Twenty years later, they reunite as their past collides with new trials, exploring themes of friendship, identity, and Zapotec culture
Sight Unseen
is a crime drama series where Tess Avery, an elite homicide detective forced into early retirement after a field accident causes her to go legally blind, secretly solves cases. She partners with Sunny Patel, a remote visual guide living in New York who directs her via micro-camera and a hidden earpiece
ALBA GIL / FILMMAKER & STORYTELLER
Hola, I’m so glad you’re here.
When I was a little girl and my dad was working as an engineer and my mom as a chemist, I stayed at my grandmother’s house every afternoon. She became one of the most important influences in my life.
I enjoyed sitting and listening to her stories about her youth, the books and films she liked and about her trips around the world. My abuela was a woman ahead of her generation.
One day, she promised me we’d go to a movie theater to watch The Sound of Music if I ate all my green beans. Without knowing what it was about the cinema, it already exerted a special magnetism on me, since a plate of green beans was never seen eaten faster in that house.
I remember that movie theatre so well and the magic that happened when the room became darker, in preparation to tell a story. The screen filled up with shapes and colours, the music held me down on my seat completely in awe. I longed to take up space and dance just like joyful Maria.
When the movie was over and we walked home together commenting about the film, she said that that was perhaps her most favourite moment. I asked her why and she explained to me that every shared reflection we had upon an experience impacts who we are as a person and how we see the world.
I think that was the moment when I decided that I wanted to become a storyteller in order to start conversations and spark reflections in others.
And so, here I am fulfilling my dream.
