Rosie Choo
Writer | Director | Actor
Rosie is a biracial Chinese Canadian writer, director and actor living on the Occupied Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples (Vancouver, Canada). Her work explores grief, friendship and diasporic identity with a queer feminist lens.
Her award-winning short film Esther & Sai was funded by the Voices With Impact grant on immigration and mental health, distributed on Air Canada and is currently in series development with the support of the Canada Media Fund and the TIFF Series Accelerator.
Rosie is an alumnus of the VIFF Catalyst Mentorship Program and Reelworld’s E20 Emerging Screenwriters Program, and a member of the Fall 2023 cohort of Women in the Director’s Chair. She is in post-production on her next short film –a dark comedy about a working class Chinese family contending with the predatory nature of the funeral industry – with the support of the National Film Board, BC Arts Council and the Canada Council of the Arts. A passionate mental healthcare advocate, Rosie also volunteers with Art With Impact as an Advisory Board member. She is fluent in Mandarin and loves thrift stores, libraries and swimming in the ocean.
