JUSTIN DUCHARME is a filmmaker, curator and hustler from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. 

He is an alumni of TIFF’s 2021 Filmmaker Lab, the 2022 Sundance Institute’s Native Film Lab,  and the 2024 TIFF Every Story Accelerator with his debut feature film project SEVENTEEN, filming summer 2025. 

He is the co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry published by Arsenal Pulp Press. His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Room Magazine, Prism International, Filmmaker Mag and Sex Worker Wisdom.

 He currently lives and works on the Unceded Coast Salish Territory colonially known as Vancouver.

headshot by Kikki Guerard