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Justin Ducharme is a Métis film director and screenwriter from St. Ambroise, Manitoba, Canada, and currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] His feature directorial debut film Seventeen is scheduled to premiere in the Discovery program at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]
Ducharme appeared as a teenager in the 2012 docudrama film We Were Children before beginning his own filmmaking career. He made a number of short films before becoming more widely known for the 2023 web series KIN.[3] He wrote the first draft of the screenplay for Seventeen in 2018, with it taking further shape after he participated in the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival's screenwriting lap program in 2019-20.[4]
In 2020 Ducharme and Amber Dawn received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for LGBTQ Anthology at the 32nd Lambda Literary Awards, as coeditors of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry.[5]
In 2022 he was also a participant in the Sundance Film Festival's Native Film Lab program.[6]
Ducharme staged a public reading of Seventeen's screenplay at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2024,[7] prior to the film going into production in 2025.[8]
Filmography
[edit]- To Be Alright – 2013
- Him/Her – 2016
- Positions – 2018
- The Dancer – 2019
- If You're Going to Talk About Me Behind My Back, At Least Check Out My Great Ass – 2023
- KIN – 2023
- Seventeen – 2026
References
[edit]- ↑ Jamie Casemore, "Justin Ducharme marks feature debut with Seventeen". Playback, June 2, 2025.
- ↑ Ryan Lattanzio, "Jodie Comer and Harry Melling Taxidermy Musical ‘Stuffed’ Leads TIFF Discovery Lineup of Rising Filmmakers". IndieWire, July 22, 2026.
- ↑ Devon Banfield, "New Toronto-based series gives audiences tender representation of queer, Indigenous youth". Now, November 10, 2023.
- ↑ Elana Shepert, "'Love letter to Vancouver': Indigenous film about the power of queer chosen family". Vancouver Is Awesome, June 16, 2025.
- ↑ Jane van Koeverden, "Billy-Ray Belcourt, Samra Habib, Ness Lee, Vivek Shraya, Mariko Tamaki among Lambda Literary Awards finalists". CBC Books, March 10, 2020.
- ↑ "'This Experience Really Felt Rare': Justin Ducharme on Sundance Native Lab 2022. Filmmaker Magazine, July 12, 2022.
- ↑ Emma Jeffrey, "Filmmaker Justin Ducharme invites the public in on research for his new film, Seventeen, about queer, urban Indigenous trio". Stir, March 4, 2024.
- ↑ Melanie Goodfellow, "Justin Ducharme’s Indigenous Sex Worker Drama ‘Seventeen’ Begins Production & Unveils Cast". Deadline Hollywood, May 30, 2025.
External links
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- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- Canadian male screenwriters
- Canadian LGBTQ screenwriters
- Canadian LGBTQ film directors
- Canadian queer writers
- Canadian queer men
- Métis filmmakers
- Film directors from Manitoba
- Film directors from Vancouver
- Screenwriters from Manitoba
- Screenwriters from British Columbia
- First Nations LGBTQ people
- Living people
- Canadian anthologists