Yasmine Mathurin is a

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filmmaker, most noted for her 2021 film '' One of Ours''.Radheyan Simonpillai
"2021’s best movies: Yasmine Mathurin finds healing in One Of Ours"
'' Now'', December 16, 2021. The film was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary, and Mathurin was nominated for Best Direction in a Documentary Program and Best Writing in a Documentary Program, at the

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in 2022.Brent Furdyk
"2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack"
'' ET Canada'', February 15, 2022. Mathurin divided her time between Haiti and Montreal in childhood, before moving to

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as a teenager. After studying political science at York University in Toronto, she attained a fellowship at the United Nations in 2011, but became disenchanted with the bureaucratic aspects of politics and went back to school to study journalism. She subsequently created The Conversation Project, a web series in which she engaged her friends in conversation about

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culture and identity, and participated in a talent incubator run by Toronto film studio Refuge Productions to further develop her filmmaking skills. She was a producer of ''Tai Asks Why'', a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation podcast and summer radio series.

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