Miss 501: A Portrait of Luck is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Clint Morrill under the pseudonym "Jules Karatechamp" and released in 2002."Clint Alberta". MediaQueer. 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."Miss 501 (A Portrait of Luck)". Variety, February 1, 2002.
The film premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival."Aboriginal filmmakers from Canada at Sundance". Guelph Mercury, January 19, 2002. Morrill committed suicide a month after its premiere."Filmmaker was 'very tortured'". The Globe and Mail, May 4, 2002.
The film was posthumously screened at the 2002 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, where it won the juried award for Best Canadian Film.Dylan Adamson, "Remembering the groundbreaking Indigenous filmmaker Clint Alberta". The Globe and Mail, June 20, 2026.
In June 2026, the film received a retrospective screening at the TIFF Lightbox to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day.
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