Lorna Boschman

Lorna Boschman is a Canadian Queer media artist, film maker, curator, educator, editor, and camera operator working with themes such as sexual identity, body image, social justice, (dis)ability, cancer, abuse,

Life Boschman was born in Carrot River, Saskatchewan, in 1955. In 2005, she graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a BFA in Film & Video.

In 1992 and 2007, Boschman directed Drawing the Line (1992), True Inversions (1992), and Before the New Millennium (2007), about Vancouver's Kiss & Tell Collective, a "performance and artist collective whose work is concerned with lesbian sexuality."

Career Boschman was featured in Montréal's 29 Festival International Du Film Sur L'Art in 2011, at the Panorama of Quebec and Canadian Video, Scars was included in a notable travelling exhibition called Rebel Girls: A Survey of Canadian Feminist Videotapes 1974-1988. Our Normal Childhood (1988) explored childhood sexual abuse.

From 2012 until 2016, Boschman worked as Project Manager and Faculty Associate for Cancer's Margins, a research study focusing on LGBT2Q persons who have been diagnosed with, and treated for breast and/or gynaecological cancers. Her work Drawing the Line is included in the permanent collection of the Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir in Paris.

Awards Boschman has won several awards for her work, including the NFB Kathleen Shannon Award at Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival, for Inside/OUT! (2000); the Judge's Award, Northwest Film and Video Festival for True Inversions (1992); and during the 2016 Vancouver's Mayor's Arts Awards, Boschman was nominated as an honoree in Film & New Media Doing Time (1991) Drawing the Line (1992) True Inversions (1992) Big Fat Slenderella (1993) Poodle Diet (1994) Fat World (1994) Sunnybrook (1995) A Cancer Video (1996) Dr. Lorna's Seven Day Poodle Diet (1998) Boy Girl (1999) From the Inside/OUT (2000) kickstART! A Celebration (2003) Walking Women (2004) this ability (2006) Before the New Millenium (2007) Thanksgiving Dinner (2007) Mother Daughter Bake Off (2014)