Image courtesy of Reel Asian.
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce Agnes Wong as the recipient of the 2024 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Career Launcher for the role of Festival Creative Artist!
Agnes Wong (she/her) is a multidisciplinary designer, artist, and curator based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Hong Kong.
Through an experimental approach, Agnes’ creative practice seeks to integrate themes of displacement, fragmentation, and temporality together in an interdisciplinary blend of digital and moving image, photography, graphic design, text, and print matter. She holds a BFA (Honours with Distinction) in Publications from OCAD University (2023) and has completed her propaedeutic studies at Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She is also the founder of Forever Gift Shop. Agnes currently works as the Communications Assistant at Xpace Cultural Centre.
Website: https://forevergiftshop.cargo.site/
Instagram: @agnesdoubleu
Founded in 1997, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian) is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema. As Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival, Reel Asian provides a public forum for Asian media artists and their work and fuels the growing appreciation for Asian cinema in Canada. In addition to the annual film festival, Reel Asian organizes year-round programming and educational initiatives in partnership with local schools and arts organizations around the GTA. Reel Asian will be celebrating its 28th annual festival with an in-person and online edition in November 2024.
Learn more about our Career Launchers at: https://careerlaunchers.format.com
