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Justine Smith is a contributor to publications including Hyperallergic, Roger Ebert and Cult MTL. She is the current president of the Quebec Critic’s Association (AQCC) and also programs Fantasia’s Underground Program.

Andrea Werhun is a white woman with brown hair, wearing a pink dress with a V-neckline. She is sitting down at a make-up table, looking at a three-paned mirror and applying lipstick.

Modern Whore: A Not So Sentimental Education

by Justine Smith
December 27, 2025
Features/Interviews

Modern Whore director Nicole Bazuin and star Andrea Werhun make the case that it's high time to consider sex work as labour with all the rights and protections that entails.

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The Monstrous Body: Documentary and ‘Horrors’ Within

by Justine Smith
March 19, 2025
Essays/Features

What does it take to make a documentary monster movie? Films like De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Caniba, and Our Body explore real body horror.

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A Century of City Symphonies

by Justine Smith
February 19, 2024
Essays/Features

Has the form of the city symphony changed in the 21st Century? From Manhatta to My Winnipeg, a tour through cities on film.

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On Mother Saigon and Making Dreams a Reality

by Justine Smith
November 14, 2023
Features/Festivals

Khoa Lê's Mother Saigon evocatively depicts family, life, and love for the LGBTQ community in Vietnam with a collaborative lens.

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Documentaries in the Age of the Apocalypse

by Justine Smith
June 26, 2023
Essays/Features

Embracing the paradox of destruction and rebirth, apocalyptic documentaries like Lessons of Darkness, Leviathan, and Sleep Has Her House explore humanity’s impact on the earth.

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Shooting Yourself: Film Diaries

by Justine Smith
February 21, 2023April 19, 2023
Features

Film diaries: the most personal mode of filmmaking in the 21st century?

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Documenting Migration

by Justine Smith
August 2, 2022
Essays

How do non-fiction filmmakers document the migration crisis? Films like Human Flow, El Mar La Mar, Born in Syria, and Clebs tackle a global human rights issue.

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Indielisboa: Poetic Docs Highlight Portuguese Festival

by Justine Smith
May 5, 2022
Festivals

A report from the 2022 IndieLisboa festival, which included Glass Life, Behind Those Walls, How Do You Measure a Year, and This House.

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Animal Macula Review: Seeing animals and being seen by them

by Justine Smith
November 19, 2021
Reviews/RIDM

In Animal Macula, old images take on new resonance and considerations through montage, transforming how we see more radically than merely engendering empathy. 

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They Sleep Standing Review: Is it all gone and past?

by Justine Smith
November 18, 2021
Reviews/RIDM

Hybrid film They Sleep Standing considers the lives of millennials and invites audiences to open their hearts to uncertainties.

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