Duc Nguyen

Duc Nguyen has more than ten years of experience in the entertainment and television industries. From 1997 to 2000, Duc worked as an interactive television program producer for GTE mainstreet. In 2001, he produced Mediated Reality, a documentary capturing the tug-of-war between US and Cuba over 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez. The documentary examines the mainstream televisions portrayal of the Elian case and proposes diverse viewpoints from ordinary Cubans and Americans. Duc, an avid traveler, has shot video footage in Viet Nam, Cuba, the Andes Mountains, and along the Amazon River in South America, In 2002, he spent a month in Ecuador documenting a group of archaeologists who were searching for a Pre-Incan civilization. In 2003, Nguyen served as an assistant editor for The New Americans and My Journey Home, multi-part series on family and identities. These programs followed different people throughout the world as they searched for a home. The shows aired nationally on PBS. Bolinao 52 is Duc’s directorial debut.