Timothy Linh Bui

In 1997, Timothy returned to his birthplace of Vietnam and co-produced THREE SEASONS, starring Harvey Keitel. A triple award winner at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. It is the first film to win both the Grand Jury and the Audience Award in festival history as well as the Cinematography Award. In 2000, Bui made his directorial debut with GREEN DRAGON starring Patrick Swayze and Forest Whitaker, who also served as executive producer. The film made its world premiere at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival in Dramatic Competition. It is the recipient of the 2001 Humanitas Prize Award, and the 2001 Austin Film Festival Audience Award. It was theatrically released in 2002. In 2004, he produced INSIDE OUT, starring Kate Walsh, Eriq La Salle, Steven Webber and Russell Wong. Anchor Bay Entertainment released the film in 2006. In 2008, Bui executive produced OWL AND THE SPARROW, an award winning film shot in Vietnam and distributed by Wave Releasing, a distribution company Bui co-founded with fellow filmmakers, Ham Tran and Stephane Gauger. In 2009 he has completed his second feature as director and producer, POWDER BLUE, a character-driven drama starring academy award winner Forest Whitaker, Jessica Biel, and Ray Liotta and is being distributed by Image Entertainment.

Tran Quoc Bao

Bao started making movies on Hi8 video at an early age and developed his visual sense from Kung Fu movies, silents, musicals and Hitchcock. His short films have screened in numerous film festivals. In 2006 he was named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” He is currently developing several feature-length screenplays.

Tran T. Kim Trang

Tran T. Kim-Trang was born in Viet Nam and emigrated to the U.S. in 1975. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and has been producing experimental videos since the early 1990’s. Her work has been exhibited internationally and nationally in solo and group screenings in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. Her video project, an eight-tape series investigating blindness and its metaphors, was completed in 2006. Tran is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Creative Capital grant, a Getty Mid-Career Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship. These fellowships have enabled her to develop a screenplay titled Call Me Sugar, based on the life of her mother, which she hopes to direct as a feature film project. Tran currently teaches at Scripps College where she is an Associate Professor of Art.

Tran Ly Tri Tan

Tran Ly Tri Tan is in his last year at the Stage and Cinema University. In June 2007, he directed three shorts: Mat Na (The Mask), Buom Dem (Night Butterfly), and Sam Hoi (Repentance), which won an award in the film festival in Vietnam. In October 2008, Tri Tan directed Cat (Cutting), Dua Be Nhin Thay Lua (A Child Has Seen The Fire), and Con Nguoi (Human).

Tony Toka (Hoang)

Born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1982, Tony Hoang (aka Tony Toka) moved to Los Angeles, California when he was four. He went to work with his parents every day for 14 years. Being one of the few Asian Americans at school and work, he was surrounded and influenced by Latino culture, and that propelled him to avoid Asian and Asian American culture. Tony went on to UC Santa Barbara were he was forced to live on the Asian Interest Floor his freshman year. He was confused and turned off by the whole situation, but slowly identified and became friends with many of them. That led him to take classes within the Asian American Studies department, which opened his eyes to many Asian American issues. His main focus was Asian Americans in American media. He graduated with Bachelor’s degrees in Film Studies and Asian American Studies. Since then, Tony has become a poet, actor, writer, director, cameraman, editor, TV host. He has been working in the Vietnamese entertainment industry and aims to bring culture, poems, and stories about Asian Americans into film and American media.

Tinh Mahoney

Tinh Mahoney escaped Viet Nam just days before the fall of Saigon. Painful memories and images of the war will haunt him for the rest of his life. Tinh left Viet Nam only to submerge himself into a world where he did not know enough English to convey his feelings, nor could he find anyone to relate his experiences. Tinh’s guitar became his closest friend. With legendary performers such as George Winston and John Fahey to produce his albums, Tinh emerges as a premier, internationally known guitarist and storyteller. He had been invited to the White House and performed at the National Mall. Tinh’s self-discovery and his returned to his homeland years after the war ended led him to start “The Village School Foundation,” an organization that helped to build schools and give out scholarships to needy children in Vietnam. Tinh teamed up with award winning film maker Emiko Omori to make a movie entitled, 7500 Miles to Redemption.

Thanh Ngoc Lam

Thanh Ngoc Lam graduated from the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema with a degree in Cinematography. In the period from 1998 to 2009, he participated in and was in charge of various programs and movies of different genres. The companies that he has worked with are Vietnam Film Company, Liberation Film Company, Vietnam Television, HTV, Vietnamnet online television. Thanh Ngoc Lam is in charged of The Independent Young Filmmakers and has produced seven short movies including Cherry (Anh Dao), A Human’s Life (Kiep Nguoi), Joke (Tro Dua), Father and Son (Cha va Con), Night in an Abandoned House (Dem trong Can Nha Hoang), Beauty (Nguoi Dep), and He (Han). Currently, his group is cooperating with the UNESCO’s Center of Experimental Film Production in experimenting some film types, such as comedy, action, and history.

Tammy Nguyen Lee

Tammy is a first generation Vietnamese American who came to the U.S. as a boat person. She graduated from Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts. A decorated student leader, her first films, Lunar Cycles, First Slow Burn (starring Alias actress Amy Acker) and Yellow screened at several film festivals, including SMU Film Festival, Asian Film Festival of Dallas, and San Diego Asian Film Festival. She received her MFA from the prestigious UCLA Producers Program. She produced for the campus news show “UCLA Next.” Her projects, Siamese and Fortune’s Fool, placed her in the Finals of the Producers Guild sponsored Marketplace competition, highlighting her as one of the division’s most promising emerging producers. She has received the Mickey Dude Fellowship, a grant for her work in Asian-themed projects, the Women In Film College Scholarship, and numerous other talent based grants and scholarships. After working at Revolution Studios and The Mine, she moved back to her hometown of Dallas, where she is currently the Director of Development & Distribution for Original Programming at AMS Pictures. In 2007, she founded ATG (Against The Grain Productions), a non-profit production company whose mission is to raise money for international orphanage and create stories that promote the Asian American experience.

Tam Le

Tam began making films in the spring of 2003, when he wrote and directed a short film called The Last Kiss, which was shown at Sidewalk Film Festival, George Lindsey Film Festival, and Sometime In October Film Festival. Later that year, he was asked by Magic City Films to write a feature-length screenplay called Under the Influence, which was produced and has sold to an independent distributor. In April 2004, he completed another short film, a dramedy called A Day In November, which was a semi-finalist at the Sometime in October Film Festival. A year later, he was twice a finalist in the Sidewalk Scramble filmmaking competition and also a finalist in the Sidewalk Sidewrite short screenplay competition. Also during this time, he completed a documentary about the Vietnam War entitled A Reunion of Soldiers, which was screened at the 19th Annual National Congress of Vietnamese Americans Convention and has been acquired by many colleges and universities. Following that year, he finished a short film called Amber, a controversial story about a young girl who is seeking revenge. In 2008, he completed another short film entitled Snitchers, about a drug deal gone bad for five friends. He continues to complete his feature-length screenplay, “Southside Dragons,” about two young Asian Americans growing up in Birmingham, Alabama.

Ta Thanh Hai

Ta Thanh Hai is a multimedia artist who has just graduated from DeLaSalle College of St. Benilde (DLSU-CSB) in the Philippines. She majored in Multimedia Arts and graduated in August 2008. During her studies, she had been a 1st and 2nd honor student for consecutive terms. Hai is a member of the CSB 2D Animation team and has joined several contests. Her latest achievements related to animation are the following: her film was made a finalist in Animazing Shorts 2007, and her stop motion animation for Animahenasyon in 2007. She is now working in Hanoi as a graphic designer and continues to create experimental animation as a hobby.

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