Joyce Wong is an award-winning director and writer based in Toronto. She is an alumna of the 2008 Berlinale Talent Campus, the 2016 TIFF Talent Lab and was names one of CBC’s 17 for 17 great Canadian filmmakers of the future. Her debut narrative feature Wexford Plaza screened in competition at Slamdance in 2017, was nominated for the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Best Canadian Film Award, the John Dunning Discovery Award by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and was awarded the Comcast Best Narrative Feature Award by the Centre for Asian American Media in San Francisco. Her previous film include The Power of Love, a short documentary about Celine Dion fans in Kenya that premiered at Hot Docs in 2011, Gentrification Guilt Meter, an interactive installation completed during a residency at Brooklyn’s Uniondocs Centre for Documentary Arts, Embodying Toronto, which won WIFT-T’s Most Innovative Film by a Female Director Award at the Toronto Urban Film Festival 2009, and Souvenirs From Asia, which won Reelworld Film Festival’s Outstanding Canadian Short Award in 2008. Her work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Awards & Nominations
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Baroness von Sketch Show (sketch comedy series)
2021 Best Direction, Variety or Sketch Comedy, Canadian Screen Awards
Working’ Moms (comedy series)
2020 Nomination, Outstanding Directorial Achievement, Director’s Guild of Canada