Article about EmBodying Toronto in the East York Mirror
Check out the article about our film in the East York Mirror. Unfortunately they misprinted my name as "Janice Wong".
"EmBodying Toronto" wins two awards at TUFF!
We won two awards at the Toronto Urban Film Festival! WIFT's "Most Ambitious Film by a Female Director" award and also the grand jury prize, "1st place" award of the festival! Thanks TUFF and WIFT! Here's the film! (co-directed with Sonia Hong)
VOTE FOR OUR NEW FILM "emBodying Toronto"!
Our new Animation, "emBodying Toronto" is going to be playing across all of Toronto's TTC screens on Thursday September 17th. Looping once every 10 mins for the whole day! You can check it out online at the Toronto Urban Film Festival Website (Scroll down to the Urban Imaginary Category). Please vote for it and support the film!
WORLDWIDE SHORTS SCREENING
Souvenirs from Asia is screening at Worldwide Shorts Film Festival on Friday June 13th, 7pm at Cumberland Cinemas (159 Cumberland Street). There is also a daytime screening on Thursday June 12th at 2pm. Goto the Film Festival Website for more information!
SOUVENIRS FROM ASIA WINS AWARD
Souvenirs from Asia has won Reelworld Film Festival's "Outstanding Canadian Short Award"!
SOUVENIRS FROM ASIA REVIEW IN EYE WEEKLY
"The equally lighthearted Souvenirs From Asia (HHHH, April 4, 7:30pm), a 12-minute short by Toronto filmmaker Joyce Wong, examines the barriers faced by “alien” adoptees as they assimilate into North American culture. Wong takes a sardonic stance, playing up eager-to-please 10-year-old Serenity’s fear of Korean terrorists, while outfitting the sulky teenaged HanJoo with literal antennae, the product of a waspy adoptive mother’s who insists on turning her daughter’s identity into art. With lush cinematography and clever visual puns (chopsticks make the perfect hair accessory), Souvenirs doesn’t hold back on its orientalist thesis: Chinese children always feel like outsiders, especially when their white mom is trying to rock a kimono."
MAR.2008 - SCREENING IN SAN FRANCISCO
Maya, Brent and I have just come back from the San Francisco International Asian Film Festival. The festival was great! Here is a photo from the Q and A for Souvenirs from Asia.
MAR.2008 - SCREENING IN HONG KONG
Part of a Canadian Diaspora special presentation, both "Banana Bruises" and "Souvenirs from Asia" screened at the Independant Film and Video Awards in Hong Kong!
FEB.2008 - BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS
I'm at the Berlin International Film Festival as part of the 6 Canadian Filmmakers chosen to participate at the Talent Campus. Check out the Telefilm Press Release!
REEL ASIAN SCREENING
The Souvenirs From Asia screening at the Toronto Reel Asian Int'l Film Festival tonight. The program it was in, Power Play, SOLD-OUT! People were even sitting in the aisles! Here's a photo from the Q and A:
INTERVIEW ON SUN TV
I was interviewed by Jeanette Luu as part of a special segment about Reel Asian Filmmakers on Canoe Live.
INTERVIEW IN MONTREAL
I was interviewed by Sino-Montreal (a Chinese arts and culture show) about my screening of "Souvenirs from Asia" at the Montreal Int'l Film Festival.
