A film studies graduate (master and bachelor’s degrees, BFA/2005, MA/2007) from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, Julie teaches film at college level at Cégep de Saint-Jérôme. She has been a journalist for the LGBTQ+ magazine Fugues (both print and online) since 2008 and a film critic for the printed magazine Sequences since 2012. Her writings have been published in many publications such as Nouvelles vues (online) and in the book "Cinematic Queerness: Gay and Lesbian Hypervisibility in Contemporary Francophone Feature Films" (2011, Peter Lang Publishing). She has directed the experimental short film Women: Beyond Labels (2018) and co-directed the documentary Amazons Then, Lesbians Now: 40 years later (2022), both shown in film festivals in Europe and North America. In 2023, as part of the queer film classics collection, she is releasing her book "À tout prendre et Il était une fois dans l’Est," published by McGill-Queen's University Press. This book gives a unique look at the LGBTQ+ pioneering representations in Quebec’s cinema. She is a member of the FIPRESCI, and the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma (Québec Film Critics Association), and has served on several film juries over the years.