Alex Huda is a Canadian-born, South Asian writer, photographer, and filmmaker. He completed his graduate studies at Toronto Metropolitan University School of Media, where he was featured on the Top 30 Under 30 list. He began his career as a trainee producer on numerous feature films and TV series, including the Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Into the West, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, and Little House on the Prairie for Walt Disney.

He wrote, produced and directed an award-winning short film, Call Me A Paki (2005), which chronicles his confrontation with racism, his struggle to hide his heritage, and ultimately, his reclamation of cultural identity. The film had its world premiere broadcast on CBC Television and was screened at over 20 festivals. His photo book, Love Wins (2013), about the separation wall in Israel and Palestine was featured in The New York Times and nominated for the Palestine Book Award.

In 2015, he started teaching instant film photography in schools across South Korea and China and currently teaches film and media studies at an international school in Hong Kong. He created a series of autobiographical visual storytelling projects, Alex in Lotusland (2018), The Unapologetic Traveler (2022), and Alex in Wonderland (2024), which were all nominated for the prestigious Webby Award. His debut novel, Brown Boy Barely Blossoms was produced by the Canadian publishing house, Iguana Books (2023). In 2025, he received the Director’s Fellowship, to study documentary practice: visual storytelling at the International Center of Photography in New York.