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 ( 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 been featured in POV Magazine , The Guardian UK , The Independent on Sunday UK , Salon , and '' The Romance of Trangression in Canada : Queering Sexualities , Nations , Cinemas '' . 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 . Her producorial credits with the NFB include a 2017 co-production with Intervention Productions , '' A Better Man ''
Inside Out Film and Video Festival
Inside Out Film and Video Festival
Justine Pimlott