Human-centered documentary and impact video — from first conversation to final cut.

Selected Work

The Seed

Guy Clark has sold flowers on the same San Francisco corner for 40 years. When he's priced out of his neighborhood and evicted, he must navigate the maze of waitlists for affordable housing — filmed over a decade as a city changes around him, and he reflects on what matters most. A short documentary about home, resilience, and the human cost of a city in transformation.

Grand Prize, 2021 UN Association Film Festival Grand Prize, 2021 San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival Screened at the Harlem International Film Festival

Directed, produced & edited by Hélène Goupil · Still I Rise Films

Flore Lenoir Studio

Directed and edited by Hélène Goupil

Seeking light with Piatoni

Directed and edited by Hélène Goupil

The Elephant

A Samburu legend says that elephants once lived in homes and worked with the women. Nowadays it is women who protect and care for Kenya’s ancient and endangered giants. Shot by award-winning National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale.

Edited by Hélène Goupil · Still I Rise Films

Award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and editor with 15 years of experience. My work has been funded by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and Carnegie-Knight News21, and recognized at the UN Association Film Festival, the San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival, the Harlem International Film Festival, and the San Francisco Documentary Festival. I'm bilingual in English and French, with deep experience producing voice-over, translation, and adapted content for Francophone audiences — and helping French-speaking organizations reach U.S. audiences.

→ Documentary editing and producing

→ Nonprofit and foundation storytelling

→ Investigative and editorial journalism video

→ Bilingual production (EN/FR)

→ Concept through final cut