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Past Fire Horse Award Winners

Paul Wong (2024)

Our 3rd annual Fire Horse Award recipient Paul Wong, is visual and media artist, storyteller, community-builder, advocate and curator. He embodies the qualities of the Fire Horse Award, as he dedicates his talent and energy to breaking down barriers, uplifting Asian Canadian communities and sparking cultural change.

Ali Kazimi (2025)

Ali Kazimi, our 4th annual Fire Horse Award recipient, is a trailblazer whose impact as a filmmaker, educator, and advocate who has had and continues to leave an important mark on the landscape of Canadian media arts. He exemplifies the spirit of the Fire Horse: original, visionary, and devoted to meaningful change.

Keith Lock (2022)

Our inaugural Fire Horse Award recipient, Keith Lock, is a trailblazing yet humble influencer of the Asian-Canadian filmmaking scene. Lock has been making films for decades and is widely regarded as one of the first Chinese-Canadian filmmakers

Mary Stephen (2023)

The 2023 recipient of the Fire Horse Award is filmmaker, editor, and mentor Mary Stephen. She embodies the qualities of the Fire horse spirit of originality, creative thinking, and trailblazing with her extensive list of work and mentorship.
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The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival, showcasing bold contemporary cinema by Asian and Asian diasporic artists from Canada, the U.S., Asia, and around the world. Held each November in Toronto, Reel Asian presents a dynamic lineup of film screenings, panels, and special events, with programming and education initiatives continuing throughout the year. Founded in 1996, Reel Asian celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2026, marking three decades of championing underrepresented voices and fostering dialogue through film and media arts.

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