Miss 501: A Portrait of Luck

Miss 501: A Portrait of Luck
Directed byJules Karatechamp
Produced byJules Karatechamp
StarringBurger
CinematographyJeff Sterne
Edited byKatharine Asals
Music byMeagan Roberts
Production
company
Karatechamp
Release date
Running time
82 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Miss 501: A Portrait of Luck is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Clint Morrill under the pseudonym "Jules Karatechamp" and released in 2002.[1] The film centres on Burger, a drag queen who is coming out of retirement to compete in the "Miss 501" drag pageant at Toronto's Bar 501.[2]

The film premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.[3] Morrill committed suicide a month after its premiere.[4]

The film was posthumously screened at the 2002 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, where it won the juried award for Best Canadian Film.

  1. ^ "Clint Alberta". MediaQueer.
  2. ^ "Miss 501 (A Portrait of Luck)". Variety, February 1, 2002.
  3. ^ "Aboriginal filmmakers from Canada at Sundance". Guelph Mercury, January 19, 2002.
  4. ^ "Filmmaker was 'very tortured'". The Globe and Mail, May 4, 2002.