Justine Pimlott is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Red Queen Productions[1] with Maya Gallus.
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."
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.
[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.
Hot Docs Inside Out Film and Video Festival M. Joan Chalmers Documentarian Award – Ontario Arts Council For additional awards - see Red Queen Productions