Canada’s first Chinese Canadian filmmaker, Keith Lock, has an MFA in film from York University. His high school film, Flights of Frenzy, won Best Super 8 Award at the UNESCO 10th Muse International, Amsterdam, 1969. His experimental feature, Everything Everywhere Again Alive, 1975, screened in TIFF’s Retrospective of Canadian Cinema,1984. A Brighter Moon, received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Short Drama, 1987. The Road Chosen: The Lem Wong Story, received the NFB Innoversity Conference Award, 2002. The Dreaming House, 2005, received Best GTA Filmmaker Award at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. More recently, he created The Secret, 2017, a 360 Virtual Reality prototype for the NFB. Keith was cinematographer for Michael Snow’s, Two Sides to Every Story, voted one of TIFF’s 150 Essential Works of Canadian Cinema, 2017. In 2020, his film, Everything Everywhere Again Alive, was selected one of “100 Best Canadian Films of All Time”, by AGO Film Curator, Jim Shedden. Keith is the inaugural winner of the Reel Asian Film Festival’s Firehorse Award, 2022. He is the Executive Producer of the feature film, Café Daughter, 2023, Winner of Audience Choice Award at the ImagineNative Film Festival. His documentary, Relics of Love and War, 2023, tells a little known Chinese Canadian history and screened internationally in many film festivals and independent venues.