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Nicole Bazuin

Nicole Bazuin is a Canadian photographer and documentary filmmaker, most noted for her creative collaborations with Andrea Werhun.

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Nicole Bazuin is a Canadian photographer and documentary filmmaker, most noted for her creative collaborations with Andrea Werhun.1

The daughter of Dan Bazuin, a former owner of the Toronto independent bookstore This Ain't the Rosedale Library,2 she began her career as a photographer and director of short films.

She first became widely known for her photographic illustrations in Werhun's book Modern Whore, a memoir of Werhun's time as a sex worker.3 She then collaborated with Werhun on the short films Modern Whore and Last Night at the Strip Club, which further documented Werhun's sex work.4

In 2022, Werhun and Bazuin published an updated edition of the book version of Modern Whore.5

In 2023 she directed Thriving: A Dissociated Reverie, a short documentary film about artist Kitoko Mai.6 The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten list for 2023.7

A full-length feature film expansion of Modern Whore premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.8 In December 2025, Bazuin was named the recipient of the Documentary Organization of Canada's annual Vanguard Award for an emerging talent in Canadian documentary filmmaking.9

At the 14th Canadian Screen Awards in 2026, Bazuin won the award for Best Editing in a Documentary, for Modern Whore.10

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References

  1. Wilson Kwong, "Fantasia Film Festival 2021: Interview With Director Nicole Bazuin Of LAST NIGHT AT THE STRIP CLUB". Film Inquiry, August 25, 2021.
  2. Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin, "Street Meat Stories". Hazlitt, June 9, 2022.
  3. Patricia Kozicka, "Andrea Werhun: 'It’s a really good time to talk about sex work'". The Guardian, December 21, 2017.
  4. Juan Barquin, "Fantasia 2021: The subversive erotic shorts of Botanicum Eroticorum". The Spool, September 1, 2021.
  5. Radheyan Simonpillai, "All new Modern Whore is like The Godfather Part II of sex work memoirs". Now, May 3, 2022.
  6. Gisselle Palomera, "Artist Kitoko Mai explores dissociative identity disorder through art". News Is Out, April 13, 2023.
  7. Pat Mullen, "TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Includes BlackBerry, Solo, Humanist Vampire". That Shelf, December 6, 2023.
  8. Etan Vlessing, "Ben Proudfoot’s Obamas-Backed ‘The Eyes of Ghana’ to Open Toronto Fest Doc Program". The Hollywood Reporter, August 6, 2025.
  9. Pat Mullen, "Nicole Bazuin, Justine Pimlott to Receive DOC Institute Honours". Point of View, December 4, 2025.
  10. Jamie Casemore, "CSAs ’26: R.T. Thorne’s 40 Acres leads cinematic arts winners". Playback, May 28, 2026.
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