Upon graduating from BCIT’s School of Television & Broadcast Communications in 2007, Justin Cousineau quickly launched his career editing the widely acclaimed feature documentary 65_RedRoses, which premiered at Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival in 2009. The project received numerous awards and accolades including Best Canadian Program at the 2010 Banff World Television Festival. For his work on the film, Justin earned a 2010 Leo Award nomination for Best Editing.
In 2009, Justin worked alongside Academy Award winning Director, John Zaritsky editing his film Leave Them Laughing. Leave them Laughing premiered at the Hot Docs Festival in 2010 and then travelled the film festival circuit winning several audience choice awards including National Film Board Most Popular Canadian Documentary at the 2010 Vancouver International Film Festival – an award which was also bestowed upon 65_Redroses the year before.
Since completing these 2 documentaries Justin has been consistently working in Vancouver editing more than 50 hours of broadcast television for a variety of networks: CBC, National Geographic, History Channel, History US, Slice, HGTV, W Network, City TV, YTV & OWN.