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AGELESS: Real Talk. Real Change. To End Ageism.

An 87-year-old explosives blaster still working remote job sites and a 24-year-old engineer fighting to be taken seriously reveal how age shapes opportunity, identity, and belonging. Through narration-free portraits across urban and rural Quebec, AGELESS assembles a mosaic of voices that exposes the subtle and overt ways assumptions about age influence work, confidence, and connection - and what becomes possible when those assumptions begin to fracture.

  • Joshua Dorsey
    Director
    Grrrrl Band; Chaki – The Creative Impulse; Bitchin’ Kitchen
  • The Cummings Centre (Pauline Grunberg)
    Producer
  • Carrie Mazoff
    Co-Producers
  • Joy Lawee
    Co-Producers
  • Joshua Dorsey
    Co-Producers
  • Before Film
    Production Company
  • Walter Bisson
    Key Cast
  • Laurence Demers
    Key Cast
  • Tal Unreich
    Cinematographer
  • Tal Unreich
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    40 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 15, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Montreal Community Launch Screening
    Montreal
    Canada
    September 15, 2025
Director Biography - Joshua Dorsey

Joshua Dorsey is a Montreal-based director, producer, and showrunner whose work spans documentary, fiction, and television. He has created award-winning series for major international broadcasters, including the record-breaking Webdreams, the globally successful Bitchin’ Kitchen, and the History Channel series Million Dollar Genius. His recent work includes the feature-length documentaries Grrrrl Band and Chaki – The Creative Impulse. Across formats, Dorsey’s work is known for its character-driven storytelling and attention to lived experience.

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Director Statement

AGELESS explores ageism as one of the last socially acceptable prejudices. Built from more than fifty interviews across urban and rural Quebec, the film draws largely from Anglophone communities whose voices are rarely foregrounded in conversations about aging, work, and belonging. Rather than relying on narration, the documentary assembles a mosaic of perspectives, allowing meaning to emerge through rhythm, juxtaposition, and lived experience. As these voices intersect, the film reveals both the personal costs of age-based assumptions and the possibilities that emerge when generations listen to one another. AGELESS invites audiences to reflect on how deeply age shapes opportunity, and how those assumptions might begin to change.

This will be the film's international premiere.

The project was initiated by the Cummings Centre in Montreal, whose work with older adults helped bring together many of the voices featured in the film.