Filmmaker
Karrie Kwong is a Chinese-Canadian director, producer, writer, and editor based in Toronto, Ontario.
She is the founder of Yellow Daffodil Productions, an independent production company dedicated to storytelling through film with an emphasis on female-led narratives and celebrating diversity. Her short film, What Really Matters, is currently in the film festival circuit, and has been officially selected by the Toronto Short Film Festival, the Canadian Diversity Film Festival, and others. Karrie was named Best New Filmmaker by the CDFF in February 2021.
She is also a producer and the finance lead of the Counterbalance Collective, a non-profit film development and production organization with a mission to foster women-led and women-focused content in all stages of filmmaking, create a welcoming space for craft development, and change the traditional norms of working in film. Counterbalance is currently in development for its second season.
Latest Project
What Really Matters (2021)
Liv’s career is her whole identity. But when her boss invites her out to dinner to “talk about her future” the same night she’s supposed to meet her partner’s parents, she ends up at the crossroads she finds herself at time and time again: choosing between her career and her personal life.
