Rachel-Alouki is an Abenaki who grew up with the Kanesatake Mohawks. Since she was very young, Rachel-Alouki has carried around photographic equipment, a super 8 film camera and told stories through her images. She soon realized that non-Aboriginals knew little about the Quebec First Nations... The idea of raising awareness and providing a positive image of her people came to her naturally then, and especially since the Oka-Kanesatake conflict.

Rachel-Alouki Labbé is an energetic and enticing, passionate and impassioned woman, who dreams of nothing less than changing the world! She enjoys travelling throughout Quebec spreading her passion for film creation and can speak with great insight about the different Aboriginal communities. Through her films, she strives to overcome prejudices and above all to value and convey the strength of the First Peoples. In her view, rapprochement requires mutual understanding. "We must take the time to learn to understand the others, their culture, and their reality". Such an understanding can lead to accepting both differences and similarities.

After being shut out of the former Radio-Canada TV series Course Destinations Monde, in which she was one of the finalists, Rachel-Alouki decided to do a race of her own and set off to explore Africa, Asia and Central America, camera in hand. Back in Quebec, she secured a mandate from the Canadian International Development Agency to make a documentary on sustainable development in Costa Rica. After that, she decided to get involved in the Vues d'Afrique festival. "I wanted to raise public awareness about all forms of racism". She directed several documentaries in Aboriginal lands broadcast on APTN and for four years, directed the series "Quand passe la cigogne", aired on Canal Vie, as well as taking part in Wapikoni Mobile tours for the National Film Board.

Rachel-Alouki is very concerned with youth, and made a Department of Indian Affairs sponsored documentary on school drop-outs, which will be screened in all the communities to give young people a taste for education.

A Teleflex Canada grant enabled her to write her first fictional series on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal youth seeking their contemporaries through action, legends and paranormal events! Despite here many activities, she has never had any intention of slowing down and even foresees other filming sessions in Aboriginal communities and abroad. She founded Alouki Films, a production company specialized in Aboriginal stories here and elsewhere.

Rachel-Alouki's leitmotiv: provide a voice to First Nations in Canada and elsewhere. Images for and by First Nations!