Justine Pimlott

Justine Pimlott
Justine Pimlott
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Filmmaker

Justine Pimlott is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Red Queen Productions^[1] 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 (NFB), 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 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 returned to the NFB, as a producer with its Ontario Studio in Toronto.^[2] Her producorial credits with the NFB include a 2017 co-production with Intervention Productions, A Better Man,^[3] as well as the 2024 co-productions, Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, with Banger Films, and A Mother Apart, with Oya Media Group.

Filmography

2000 - Laugh in the Dark (producer/director/writer)^[4]
2002 - Chasing the Dream (director)
2005 - Fag Hags: Women Who Love Gay Men (director)
2007 - Girl Inside (producer)
2007 - Punch like a Girl (producer/co-director)
2008 - Cat City (director)^[5]
2010 - Dish: Women, Waitressing & the Art of Service (producer)
2012 - The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche (producer)
2013 - Derby Crazy Love (producer/co-director)^[6]^[7]^[8]
2015 - Sculpting Memory - Atom Egoyan (producer)
2017 - Portrait of a Family (Legacies 150) (producer)
2017 - Who is The Real Martin Short (producer)
2017 - A Better Man (producer)^[9]
2018 - The Haunts of Murray McLauchlan (producer)
2018 - What Walaa Wants (producer)
2019 - Woman Dress (producer)
2019 - The Bassinet (producer)
2019 - Hand Made Mountain (producer)
2019 - The Hook Up (producer)
2019 - Reviving the Roost (producer)
2019 - Camera Test (Five Feminist Minutes) (producer)
2019 - The Afterlifetime of Colm Feore (producer)
2020 - Nbissiing (producer)
2020 - Have You Eaten (producer)
2020 - Borealis (producer)
2020 - Inconvenient Indian (producer)
2023 - Boat People (producer)
2024 - Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story (producer)
2024 - A Mother Apart (producer)

Awards and nominations

Hot Docs

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

^ Barri C. (2013, February 26) "The open hearts of the Red Queens - Part One". POV.
^ Vlessing, Etan (2015-07-05). "Justine Pimlott, David Oppenheim named NFB producers". Reelscreen. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
^ Scheck, Frank (8 May 2017). "'A Better Man': Film Review | Hot Docs 2017". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
^ Thomas Waugh, Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780773576803. p. 288.
^ Animal Voices (2009, October 6). Shadow City: An interview with Cat City director Justine Pimlott.
^ Henry Barnes, "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, June 10, 2014.
^ Lena C. (2014 June 29) London Rollergirls prepare to face the toughest team in the world - the feared Gotham Girls. The Independent.
^ Erica R. K. (2013 November 11) Derby Crazy Love: Red Queen Productions Celebrates a New Kind of Femininity with Roller Derby Documentary. Shedoesthecity.
^ Biz Books (2017, November 21). Slow dissolve: Interview with Justine Pimlott [Interview].

External links

[1] Barri C. (2013, February 26) "The open hearts of the Red Queens - Part One". POV.

[2] Vlessing, Etan (2015-07-05). "Justine Pimlott, David Oppenheim named NFB producers". Reelscreen. Retrieved 2017-02-06.

[Scheck-3] Scheck, Frank (8 May 2017). "'A Better Man': Film Review | Hot Docs 2017". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 May 2017.

[4] Thomas Waugh, Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780773576803. p. 288.

[5] Animal Voices (2009, October 6). Shadow City: An interview with Cat City director Justine Pimlott.

[6] Henry Barnes, "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, June 10, 2014.

[7] Lena C. (2014 June 29) London Rollergirls prepare to face the toughest team in the world - the feared Gotham Girls. The Independent.

[8] Erica R. K. (2013 November 11) Derby Crazy Love: Red Queen Productions Celebrates a New Kind of Femininity with Roller Derby Documentary. Shedoesthecity.

[9] Biz Books (2017, November 21). Slow dissolve: Interview with Justine Pimlott [Interview].

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