Hey reddit, we're Andrea & Nicole. Our new film, MODERN WHORE, is a hybrid-documentary that explores Andrea's time as a sex worker in Toronto (based on her memoir Modern Whore, a collection of Andrea’s stories and Nicole’s photography).
Modern Whore premiered at TIFF 2025 and is available on digital May 1st.
We're here to answer your questions 😄
Here's the trailer!
Synopsis/TIFF write-up:
An impassioned and insightful rebuttal to the assumptions, misconceptions, and faulty representations that surround sex work and sex workers, Modern Whore may also be the most audacious and engaging movie ever made about the oldest profession.
Successfully expanding on their 2020 short film and book of the same name, director Nicole Bazuin and subject and co-writer Andrea Werhun take viewers on a very eventful journey through Werhun’s experiences as an escort and exotic dancer, a career she began when she was a university student in Toronto. As Werhun recounts with great flair and frankness in the film’s stylized, fourth-wall-breaking re-enactments, there were many lessons to be learned and challenges to be faced, including the lack of protection from toxic clients and her own internalized versions of the shame that society associates with female pleasure and the sex industry.
Ask us anything! We will be back tomorrow Tuesday 4/28 at about 4 PM ET to answer your questions.
