Justine Pimlott
Justine Pimlott is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Red Queen Productions with Maya Gallus. She began her career apprenticing as a sound recordist with Studio D, the women’s studio at the National Film Board of Canada, in Montreal. As a documentary filmmaker, her work has won numerous awards, including Best Social Issue Documentary at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Best Canadian Film at Inside Out Film and Video Festival for Laugh in the Dark, which critic Thomas Waugh described, in The Romance of Transgression in Canada as “one of the most effective and affecting elegies in Canadian queer cinema.” Her films have screened internationally at Sheffield Doc/Fest, SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival, Women Make Waves (Taiwan), This Human World Film Festival (Vienna), Singapore International Film Festival, among others, and have been broadcast around the world. She has been featured in POV Magazine,[1][2] The Guardian[3] UK, The Independent on Sunday[4] UK, Salon,[5] and The Romance of Trangression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas.[6] She has also served as chair of the board and programmer for Inside Out, former board member for DOC Toronto, and, in 1982, founded Film Furies, the first international women’s film festival in Winnipeg. In 2014, she became a producer with the Ontario studio of the National Film Board of Canada.
| Release | Film | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Derby Crazy Love (producer/co-director) | The third wave feminist revival of women’s roller derby and the subculture around the sport. |
| 2012 | The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche (producer) | The life and work of Canadian writer Mazo de la Roche, author of Jalna and the Whiteoak Chronicles. |
| 2010 | Dish - Women, Waitressing & the Art of Service (producer) | From classic North American diners and Montreal’s “sexy restos” to Paris’s haute eateries and Tokyo’s maid cafes. |
| 2008 | "Cat City" (Director) | A look at the cat overpopulation crisis in Canada, following grassroots activists, shelter workers and cat lovers. |
| 2007 | Girl Inside (Producer) | Follows 26-year-old Madison over three years, transitioning to her true female self, with the help of her glamorous 80-year-old grandmother. |
| 2007/2002 | Punch Like A Girl (Producer/Co-Director) | An inside look at women’s amateur boxing, featuring dramas in and out of the ring. |
| 2005 | Fag Hags: Women Who Love Gay Men (Director) | Explores profound relationships between women and gay men, focusing on three very different couples. |
| 2002 | Chasing the Dream (Director) | A portrait of international women’s hockey following six teams leading up to the Olympics. |
| 2000 | Laugh in the Dark (Producer/Director/Writer) | As the AIDS crisis looms, a group of gay men try to create Provincetown of the North in the dilapidated town of Crystal Beach. |
Awards and nominations
- 2000: Best Social Issue Documentary: Laugh in the Dark (Award)
Inside Out Film and Video Festival
- 2000: Best Canadian Film: Laugh in the Dark (Award)
M. Joan Chalmers Documentarian Award – Ontario Arts Council
- 2000: Laugh in the Dark (Shortlisted)
For additional awards - see Red Queen Productions
References
- ↑ "The open hearts of the Red Queens - Part One". povmagazine.com.
- ↑ "The open hearts of the Red Queens - Part Two". povmagazine.com.
- ↑ Henry Barnes (10 June 2014). "Derby Crazy Love directors at Sheffield Doc/Fest: 'Nobody's making a big feminist point about it - it just is inclusive' - video interview". the Guardian.
- ↑ "London Rollergirls prepare to face the toughest team in the world - the feared Gotham Girls". The Independent.
- ↑ Thomas Rogers. "Ladies: I'm not your gay boyfriend". salon.com.
- ↑ Thomas Waugh (2006): pp. 208, 288 and 488 (Movers and Shakers)