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Meet Winnie W. Wong founder of Wonder Wong PR & Communications
(Voting member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television)
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Winnie began her film and television career as a Production Secretary, then quickly moved on to the Assistant Director department in the Film, Television, Music Video and Commercial Industries. For many years she assisted two of Canada’s great directors, Norman Jewison and David Cronenberg.
Winnie managed and strategised numerous publicity and communications campaigns. Her recent projects include the unit publicity, launch publicity and social media maintenance of CBC Gem's original HELLO (AGAIN) created by Simu Liu (Marvel’s SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS) and Nathalie Younglai (The CW and CBC's CORONER). Along with the marketing and grassroots initiative for the Canadian theatrical release of queer Indigenous filmmaker Gail Maurice’s award-winning feature film ROSIE (TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten). As well as, handling the Berlinale Teddy Award winner NELLY & NADINE at the Hot Docs International Film Festival.
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Winnie has also handled publicity for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival from 2019-2022 and the Regent Park Film Festival. Along with managing the company launch publicity and communications campaign for the newly formed animation house Crooked City Studios with the award-winning Solis Animation and the Juno-nominated internationally celebrated rock band Rare Americans. Winnie oversaw and managed the publicity and social media campaign for the Toronto-based renowned theatre company VideoCabaret’s remount of THE COLD WAR.
Winnie has produced many special events and red carpets including the Firecracker Department TIFF Red Carpet in 2020 and 2021, as the head producer. She was also the head producer of 90+ FIRECRACKER DEPARTMENT WITH NAOMI SNIECKUS podcast episodes.
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Theatrical film releases include:
•. Jacqueline Castel's MY ANIMAL starring Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Amandla Stenberg and Stephen McHattie
• Joey Klein’s CASTLE IN THE GROUND starring Neve Campbell, Alex Wolff and Imogen Poots
• Matt Ratner’s STANDING UP, FALLING DOWN starring Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz
• Benedict Andrew’s SEBERG starring Kristen Stewart and Vince Vaughn
• The Venice Film Festival Best Film Winner Sameh Zoabi’s TEL AVIV ON FIRE
• Carl Hunter’s SOMETIMES ALWAYS NEVER starring Bill Nighy, Maverick Spirit Award (Cinequest San Jose Film Festival)
• Sean Hanish’s SAINT JUDY starring Michelle Monaghan, Common, Alfred Molina and Alfre Woodward
• Maysaloun Hamoud's IN BETWEEN (Original Title Bar Bahar Israel/France) - NETPAC Award (Toronto International Film Festival), World Cinema Amsterdam Jury Award Special Mention
• Aviva Armour-Ostroff’s LUNE (Armour-Ostroff nominated for 2022’s Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance)
• Vladmir Jon Cubrt’s LUBA - People's Pick for Best Flick (Canadian Film Fest), Best Foreign Feature (Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema)
• Gail Harvey’s NEVER SAW IT COMING starring Eric Roberts, Emily Hampshire and Tamara Podemski
• Aviva Armour-Ostroff and Arturo Pérez Torres's THE DRAWER BOY - Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor - Richard Clarkin
• XX (US/Canada) - First-ever female horror anthology by - Roxanne Benjamin, Karyn Kusama, St. Vincent, Jovanka Vuckovic
• Adam Garnett Jones and Sarah Kolasky’s GREAT GREAT GREAT - Best Feature, Best Screenplay and Best Performance (Canada Film Fest)
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) publicity highlights include:
• Cannes Winner Prize Un Certain Regard THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MAKI directed by Juho Kuosmanen (Finland/Germany/Sweden)
• Cannes Winner Directors’ Fortnight MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS directed by Mouly Surya (Indonesia/France/Malaysia/Thailand)
• Cannes’ Critics Week Grand Prize MIMOSAS directed by Olivier Laxe (Spain/Morocco/France/Qatar)
• Gail Maurice’s ROSIE (Canada) - TIFF's Canada's Top Ten, Audience Choice Award (ImagineNative)
• Sophie Jarvis’s UNTIL BRANCHES BEND (Canada) - Best BC Film (Vancouver International Film Festival)
• Wayne Wapeemukwa's LUK’ LUK’I - Best Canadian First Feature Film (Toronto International Film Festival), Best BC Film (Vancouver International Film Festival)
• Kathleen Hepburn’s NEVER STEADY, NEVER STILL (Canada) - Best Canadian Film (Vancouver Film Critics Circle, General Jury Prize (Dublin International Film Festival)
• Kevan Funk’s HELLO DESTROYER (Canada) - Best Canadian Film (Vancouver Film Critics Circle)
• Stella Meghie’s JEAN OF THE JONESES (Canada) - Audience Award (Champs-Élysées Film Festival)
• André Øvredal’s THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE (USA) - Best Picture (Horror Features) (Fantastic Fest), Pegasus Audience Award, Best Film (Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film)
• Nandita Das’s MANTO (India) - Best Performance by an Actor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Asia Pacific Screen Awards)
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Hot Docs International Documentary Festival (Hot Docs) publicity highlights include:
• the Academy Award-nominated FOR SAMA (Syria/UK/US)
• Berlinale Teddy Winner NELLY & NADINE (Sweden/Belgium/Norway)
• the James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger executive produced THE GAME CHANGERS (Canada/US)
• PRAYING FOR ARMAGEDDON (Norway/Sweden/Germany/Finland)
• GOLDEN DAWN GIRLS (Norway/Denmark/Finland) - The Euroimages Co-Production Development Award (CPH:DOX), Grand Jury Prize (One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival)
• 7 YEARS OF LUKAS GRAHAM (Denmark)
• HUNTING IN PACKS (Canada).
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