The mechanism for doing this is a total hack on Django's ORM. We build a bigass list of all possible JOINs and concat them together: some_model__another__t

The mechanism for doing this is a total hack on Django's ORM. We build a bigass list of all possible JOINs and concat them together: some_model__another__title some_model__another__date some_model__another__description You select which fields and values to use, and then we can just dump them into a queysets' filter or exclude method using python's lovely kwarg expansion.