Justin Ducharme is a writer, filmmaker and curator from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. His short films POSITIONS and THE DANCER have screened at festivals like the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Asinabka, BFI Flare, Outfest Fusion, NFLA, Seattle Queer Film Fest and more. 

He was the co-writer, director and producer of the queer Indigenous web series KIN alongside Jas Morgan and Arielle Twist. KIN premiered at the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in 2023 and was supported through their ImagineNATIVE Originals program. 

He is an alumni of the 2022 Sundance Institute’s Native Film Lab, TIFF’s 2022 Filmmaker Lab and the 2024 TIFF Every Story Accelerator with his debut feature film project SEVENTEEN starring Aalayna, Nizhonniya Austin and Taio Gelinas. 

Justin is the co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry alongside Amber Dawn, published by Arsenal Pulp Press in fall of 2019. 

His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Room Magazine, Prism International and Filmmaker Mag. He currently lives and works on the Unceded Coast Salish Territory colonially known as Vancouver.

Photo by Celina Koops on the set of SEVENTEEN.