Kirsten Jeannine Gauthier is a Vancouver based filmmaker who originally hails from the Northwest Territories. This upbringing left an impression on her methods as a filmmaker in more than one way. The bare and rugged aesthetic, she believes, combined with sharp contrasting seasons influenced the way she visually marks herself as a story-teller. Kirsten credits her “find a solution and get it done” attitude to the limit of readily available resources that Northerners must deal with as a part of their seasonal lives.
A graduate of WIDC’s Banff ACP and Story Modules and the Vancouver Film School acting program (2010), Gauthier describes her writing and story-telling style as “Seriously Corky”. Her more recent works and writings focus on hard-hitting topics made approachable through well-placed comedy including The Last Caribou which she developed at WIDC and was a finalist in the 2017 WIFTV International Screenplay competition.
In 2014, her first short was screened at the Post Alley Film Festival. Her short Lying to be Good is out at festivals. She is currently in the research phase of a short documentary outlining funding gaps for Canadian adults with disabilities, and in preproduction on her first feature film The Last Caribou, a project that will take her back home to the North.