Justin Ducharme is a Métis film director and screenwriter from St. Ambroise, Manitoba, Canada, and currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia.Jamie Casemore, "Justin Ducharme marks feature debut with Seventeen". Playback, June 2, 2025. His feature directorial debut film Seventeen is scheduled to premiere in the Discovery program at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival.Ryan Lattanzio, "Jodie Comer and Harry Melling Taxidermy Musical ‘Stuffed’ Leads TIFF Discovery Lineup of Rising Filmmakers". IndieWire, July 22, 2026.
Ducharme appeared as a teenager in the 2012 docudrama film We Were Children before beginning his own filmmaking career. He made a number of short films before becoming more widely known for the 2023 web series KIN.Devon Banfield, "New Toronto-based series gives audiences tender representation of queer, Indigenous youth". Now, November 10, 2023. He wrote the first draft of the screenplay for Seventeen in 2018, with it taking further shape after he participated in the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival's screenwriting lap program in 2019-20.Elana Shepert, "'Love letter to Vancouver': Indigenous film about the power of queer chosen family". Vancouver Is Awesome, June 16, 2025.
In 2020 Ducharme and Amber Dawn received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for LGBTQ Anthology at the 32nd Lambda Literary Awards, as coeditors of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry.Jane van Koeverden, "Billy-Ray Belcourt, Samra Habib, Ness Lee, Vivek Shraya, Mariko Tamaki among Lambda Literary Awards finalists". CBC Books, March 10, 2020.
In 2022 he was also a participant in the Sundance Film Festival's Native Film Lab program."'This Experience Really Felt Rare': Justin Ducharme on Sundance Native Lab 2022. Filmmaker Magazine, July 12, 2022.
Ducharme staged a public reading of Seventeens screenplay at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2024,Emma Jeffrey, "Filmmaker Justin Ducharme invites the public in on research for his new film, Seventeen, about queer, urban Indigenous trio". Stir, March 4, 2024. prior to the film going into production in 2025.Melanie Goodfellow, "Justin Ducharme’s Indigenous Sex Worker Drama ‘Seventeen’ Begins Production & Unveils Cast". Deadline Hollywood, May 30, 2025.
Filmography To Be Alright – 2013 Him/Her – 2016 Positions – 2018 The Dancer – 2019 If You're Going to Talk About Me Behind My Back, At Least Check Out My Great Ass – 2023 KIN – 2023 Seventeen – 2026
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