A Journey of Self Discovery: How Julia Yoo Found Her Identity as an Asian Artist

<p>Julia is a 17-year-old youth filmmaker, visual artist and photographer based in Toronto. She is currently enrolled in the film program at the Etobicoke School of the Arts and has been a member of TIFF’s youth programming team, the TIFF Next Wave Committee, for almost 3 years. With all of this experience, her work has been recognized and acclaimed in a variety of settings such as being a recipient of the Scholastic Art and Writing Silver Key, as well as having her work screened at the Philadelphia Youth Film Festival in 2019. Her work ventures into a variety of art forms and mediums, mainly exploring the stories of navigating western societies through the influences of race. Julia describes her work as aiming to attack western ethnocentrism, and shine a light on the duality between our own cultural identities.</p> <p>In this episode, Julia speaks about her journey finding her identity in a white-majority school, meeting amazing people on the TIFF Nextwave Committee and how everything has translated into her arts. We also chat about some light-hearted topics such as the iMovie experience and the blessing and curse that is online school and events. Hope you enjoy it!!</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Guest:</strong></p> <p><em>Julia Yoo</em> (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/julia.yoo/">@julia.yoo</a>)</p> <p><em>Check out her art!</em> - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/juliayooart/">@juliayooart</a></p> <p><strong>Hosted by:</strong></p> <p><em>Amber Dhall</em> (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/amber_dhall/">@amber_dhall</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/beyond.the.film/">@beyond.the.film</a> on Instagram)</p> <p><em>Jasma Zhou</em> (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/jasma_fusion_cuisine/">@jasma_fusion_cuisine</a> on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFD-WazSyq4YcoWMUGIszOQ">Youtube</a> and Instagram)</p> <p><strong>Contact information:</strong></p> <p>Email - offthechartspodcastt@gmail.com</p> <p>Instagram - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/offthecharts_podcast/">@offthecharts_podcast</a></p>