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Genéa Gaudet is an award-winning documentary and music video director, editor, and camera woman. Working out of Los Angeles, Genéa (pronounced Jenaya) explores gender, memory, relationships, and sexuality in her work.

She is a featured director on Free the Bid and Boyish.

Genéa is currently directing the 17th season of reality docuseries Sister Wives for TLC/Discovery+. Her last TV series saw a 2021 release on FX network: A doc series called PRIDE about the rise of the LGBTQ++ movement. She is also in post-production on a feature film called 5 Days – an intimate portrait of a man who faces a five-day trial and 30 years in prison for child molestation.

Her first short documentary, Elder, recalls the experience of a Mormon man who became a missionary in Italy during the 70s and fell in love with a Communist man. It premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and was a selection for the Emmy award-winning New York Times Op-Docs series. It won a jury prize for Best Short Documentary at the Napa Valley Film Festival. Her second film, Second to None, is a branded-content short about Isabella and Margaux Isaksen – two sisters vying for an Olympic slot on the U.S. Pentathlon Team. It was featured on ESPN in 2016.

Genéa’s music video Game to Lose for indie-folk supergroup I’m With Her is featured on Rolling Stone, and aggregating on Variety, The Guardian, JamBase and Daily Motion. Wasteland, her music video for Seether, has topped 2 million YouTube views and won Best Cinematography at the California Music Video Awards. Additionally, she has filmed music videos, short documentaries and promotionals for Steve Martin, Andrew Bird, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, the Violent Femmes, The Record Company, and Lindsey Sterling.

Genéa is on the roster of the Motion Picture Editors Guild (IATSE 700).

Genéa grew up in Canada and works in a Los Angeles studio through her production company, Girlfight Pictures. She spends most of her time living The Art Life in a quiet expanse of the Mojave Desert.