## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](/index%2Ephp/) 2. [News and Stories](/index%2Ephp/news) 3. [Announcing Luisé Cineros as the recipient of the 2024 Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards Statue Call for Artists Career Launcher!](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/2907) December 5, 2024 # Announcing Luisé Cineros as the recipient of the 2024 Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards Statue Call for Artists Career Launcher! ![WritersGuild](/sites/default/files/styles/1_5_1_large/public/2024-12/WritersGuild-CL.jpg.webp?itok=O24LBh6Z) rgb(255,255,255) OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce [Luisé Cineros](http://www.luisecisneros.com/) as the recipient of the 2024 Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards Statue Call for Artists Career Launcher! ![Photo of Luise Cisneros](/sites/default/files/2024-12/Luise%20Cisneros.jpg) [Luisé Cisneros](http://www.luisecisneros.com/) is a Mexican-Canadian artist who moved to Canada in 2005 from Mexico. A year later, ze sold hir first piece to the city of Toronto. In 2015, Luisé won the Los Diez Award at the Latin American Ilustración, and has exhibited in New York City, Brooklyn, and Bogotá, Colombia. Ze received the Jurors’ Choice Award twice at the Pride London Festival Art Show in 2017 and 2018. Most recently, in 2023, ze won the Craft Ontario Community Award for hir solo show, "Queer Quinte: Memory and Celebration," at the Quinte Arts Council in Belleville. Currently, ze is in hir final year at OCAD University, where ze predominantly creates works in sculpture, installation, and wearable art. Through these mediums, ze critiques the barriers, discrimination, and violence faced as a BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ individual living in the diaspora, while also celebrating hir Mexican heritage, cultural traditions, and identity as a Canadian immigrant. Website: [www.luisecisneros.com](https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.luisecisneros.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cfyusuf%40ocadu.ca%7C882504dbdf114e5f292908dd135a4f4a%7C06e469d12d2a468fae9b7df0968eb6d7%7C0%7C0%7C638688001103883290%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=lIG8vwnTkigfzwve7fvmRaQvd%2BaxKttzKVRS%2BZAVB9s%3D&reserved=0) Instagram: [@luisecisnerosart](https://www.instagram.com/luisecisnerosart/) The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) represents more than 2,500 professional English-language screenwriters in Canada — the creators of entertainment watched around the world. The WGC administers contracts and advises producers on how to engage professional screenwriters, and celebrates and promotes its members by hosting the annual WGC ScreenwritingAwards, as well as events and panels on the craft and business of screenwriting. The WGC is *the* voice for Canadian screenwriters. Learn more about our Career Launchers at:[ https://careerlaunchers.format.com](https://careerlaunchers.format.com/) ## Other Recent News [### 2026-27 Call for Funding Proposals for Student Groups that Support Creative Entrepreneurship on Campus The RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) invites OCAD University student groups with a mandate to support entrepreneurship on campus to apply for funding for student-led initiatives that strengthen and expand the creative entrepreneurship ecosystem at OCAD U. This funding is intended to help student groups create opportunities for entrepreneurship skills development, community building, and revenue-generating activities for students and recent alumni, while reducing barriers to participation for equity-seeking individuals. 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October 26, 2026 ](/news/call-vendors-bam-holiday-art-market-2026) Related Stories ## Related Stories [### 2026-27 Call for Funding Proposals for Student Groups that Support Creative Entrepreneurship on Campus The RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) invites OCAD University student groups with a mandate to support entrepreneurship on campus to apply for funding for student-led initiatives that strengthen and expand the creative entrepreneurship ecosystem at OCAD U. This funding is intended to help student groups create opportunities for entrepreneurship skills development, community building, and revenue-generating activities for students and recent alumni, while reducing barriers to participation for equity-seeking individuals. November 6, 2026 ](/news/2026-27-call-funding-proposals-student-groups-support-creative-entrepreneurship-campus) [### 2027 Critical Distance Centre for Curators Projections Program Call for Artists OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) and Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) have partnered to co-create CDCC Projections Program Career Launcher. Four (4) to five (5) selected emerging artists will receive $690 to exhibit work in a single channel, projection-based screening program that will be displayed at the CDCC in March 2027. October 30, 2026 ](/news/2027-critical-distance-centre-curators-projections-program-call-artists) [### Call for Vendors: BAM! Holiday Art Market 2026 OCAD University's RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) is excited to partner again with Wychwood Barns to offer a curated group of OCAD U students and recent alumni the opportunity to share a vendor table at the BAM! Holiday Art Market. October 26, 2026 ](/news/call-vendors-bam-holiday-art-market-2026)