Doan Hoang

Doan Hoang, Producer/Director (Hoàng Niên Thuc- Đoan), is an award-winning producer, director, and writer of films, heading her own production company, Nuoc Pictures. She was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, to a South Vietnamese Air Force major from Saigon and a Mekong Delta socialite. Raised in Kentucky, Hoang wrote her first book about the Vietnam War at age nine and made her first documentary film about war at the age of 13. A graduate of Smith College, Hoang spent years as an editor and writer, working for national magazines such as Details, House & Garden, Spin and Saveur. Oh, Saigon is a seven-year documentary study on her family, funded by the Sundance Institute, ITVS, the Center for Asian American Media and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and has played in festivals nationally and internationally. Oh, Saigon recently screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and won Best Feature Documentary at the Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival. Some of her other film titles include Agent, Good Morning Captains and A Requiem for Vegetables. She is currently writing a narrative screenplay called Love London, a comedy based on her 7-year-marriage to a British aristocrat and producing an action adventure comedy about a phony TV survivalist called Danger Man.