Rita Tse

Bio

Rita Tse, born and raised in Hong Kong, began her career in graphic design. She earned a BFA in Film with a minor in Art & Culture Studies at Simon Fraser University. Her graduation film, EastBound (2004), was given the Norman McLaren Award offered by the National Film Board of Canada. She received her MFA in Film Production from York University. She is an experimental filmmaker with specific interests in gender, ethnicity and memory. Her latest works have mainly explored artisanal manipulation techniques on celluloid using archival silent film footage as her source materials. She has also worked for the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.