David Ngo

David Ngo is an award-winning filmmaker and writer.  His first independent feature, The Queen from Virginia, which he directed, received the Best Documentary Feature Jury Prize at the 2006 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.  In 2007, he directed the short BPS, which was named a Top 10 finalist at the 4th Annual 72 Hour Shootout.  Overall, David’s films have appeared in over eight film festivals nationwide.  As a screenwriter, David received 2nd Runner-up in the CAPE Foundation New Writers Awards competition in 2008 for TV Writing.  In 2008, David was chosen to participate in the Nickelodeon Writer’s Lab at the Palm Springs International Shorts Festival.  Prior to this, David was awarded with the Armed with a Camera Fellowship through Visual Communications, the premier Asian Pacific media arts center in the US.  He is also a past honoree of Film Independent’s Project, Involve, which is a select mentorship program for young filmmakers.