Justin Ducharme is a writer and filmmaker from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. His short films POSITIONS and THE DANCER have screened at festivals including ImagineNATIVE, Asinabka, BFI Flare, NFLA and Seattle Queer Film Fest. He is an alumnus 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. Justin is co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry. His writing has appeared in Canadian Art, Room Magazine, Prism International and The Positive Side.