Our story
EXPOSURES started in 2023 in response to the lack of gender diverse film screenings in Montréal. We are a trans & queer film organization dvedicated to providing easy access to queer and trans-made media, fostering a vibrant connection between gender-nonconforming filmmakers and Montréal’s trans and queer community.
Since our inception, we have organised over 20 sold-out screenings, provincial film premieres and collaborated with established film festivals such as Image+Nation and the Toronto Queer Film Festival.
The collective was started by Iris Pint, a curator, film scholar, and PhD candidate at McGill University. Iris is supported by a dedicated team of volunteers whose expertise spans professional filmmaking, film scholarship, law, and trans rights advocacy
our team
COLLECTIVE & FESTIVAL FOUNDER
Iris Pint (they/them) is a Romanian curator, event organizer, and film scholar specialising in trans and queer cinema. Iris started Exposures (the film collective) in 2023.
PROGRAMMING TEAM
Molly M. (she/they) is a nonbinary transfemme filmmaker currently living in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). She studied film and television production at Sheridan College and is currently in production on their first short. Molly worked on a variety of short film programs.
Eleanor (she/her) is a transfemme movie nerd passionate about queer art. She loves cheesy horror, cats, and laughing too loudly at inopportune moments. Eleanor worked on a variety of short film programs.
Kaye Adelaide (she/her) is a Montreal-based filmmaker and alumni of the From Our Dark Side program (2019). Kaye has directed four experimental short films, as well as the critically acclaimed short horror comedy Don’t Text Back (2020), which will screen as part of our TRANSQuebec retrospective. Kaye was in charge of programming the feature films for the festival.
Ty Murphy (they/them) is a queer immigrant of colour, currently residing in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) in pursuit of their PhD in Film Studies. They are also an artist, writer, curator-archivist and rodent enthusiast. Ty programmed “Trans Ecologies”.
ORGANIZING TEAM
Jules (he/him) is a bi French (but nice) transmasc who recently moved to Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). He is interested in building communities and finding collective ways of improving our lives under the current systems of oppression. He enjoys all forms of queer fiction, political essays, poetry, cats and friends. He also volunteers for the Trans Patient Union https://transpatientunion.org/
Andrea Tredenick (she/they) is a cis lesbian autistic punk born and raised in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). She is currently hyperfixated on Good Omens fanfiction and singing the Hazbin Hotel soundtrack. She also enjoys bubbles, anime, clouds, her cats, throwing down in mosh pits, and is the proud Door Girl for the Throw! Poetry Slam Collective. https://throwpoetrycollective.wordpress.com/
INTERNS
Patrick Poullin (they/them/any) is a Montreal-based filmmaker. They were in charge of video editing for the festival.
Lake de Gall (they/he) is an artist and graphic designer. Lake was in charge of design for the festival.