Alice Gu is an award-winning director and director of photography. A Los Angeles
native, Alice began her career as a director of photography, working with renowned
directors Werner Herzog, Stacy Peralta, and Rory Kennedy, among others. Her
commercial clients for print and live action include TBWA/ Chiat Day, Media Arts
Lab, Deutsche, Edelman, Berlin Cameron, Cole & Weber, Pereira & O’Dell,
Doremus, Publicis, Beats by Dre, Laird Hamilton, ESPN, FIFA, NFL, NHL, NBA,
the WSL, and Apple.

Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton made its premiere at the Sundance
Film Festival in 2017, a documentary film directed by Academy Award-nominated
director, Rory Kennedy, and lensed by Alice Gu.

THE DONUT KING is Alice’s feature directorial debut and was slated to premiere
in the canceled 2020 SXSW film festival. Despite the cancellation, the film won
the Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Documentary Storytelling, as well as the
Best Documentary awards from the Sun Valley Film Festival, Bentonville Film
Festival, Urbanworld Film Festival and Best Emerging Director at the 43rd Asian
American International Film Festival. A feature-length documentary about the rise
and fall of a Cambodian refugee turned donut tycoon, “The Donut King” is
executive produced by Academy Award-winners Ridley Scott and Freida Lee
Mock.

Alice’s follow-up feature, REALLY GOOD REJECTS, premiered in competition at
the 2022 SXSW Film Festival. The film was produced by Academy-Award winning
producers David Dinerstein and Robert Fyvolent.

Alice is a 2022 fellow of the prestigious Concordia Studios Fellowship, which was
founded by Academy Award winner Davis Guggenheim.
Alice has upcoming film releases about big wave surfing with Campfire Studios
and a film with Gloria Steinem about Ms. Magazine for HBO Films. While currently
in post production on a film about elephants for IMAX, Alice is also transitioning
into the narrative space, developing a feature project with Scott Free Productions.