Thang Vu

A graduate of the Columbia College of Film in Hollywood, Thang Vu has directed several student projects: Bowl for Salad, The Janitor, Silent Night, The Other Side, and Borderless.

Vu T. Thu Ha

Vu T. Thu Ha is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in film, photography and conceptual art. Her installations have been exhibited throughout the West Coast. Her first films, Each Night (2001) and Shut Up White Boy (2002), have screened nationally and internationally.

Vu Bao

Bao Vu is an undergraduate film student at the School of Visual Arts. He left Viet Nam in the 1980s and arrived at the VSA four years ago. For more than a decade, Ban Vu has worked as a photographer, video editor, and STEADICAM operator. His first film, Lost Hope (1997), won an “Honorable Mention” Award at the Columbus International Film Festival and has screened at a number of film festivals across the U.S.

Nadine Truong

Nadine, a German-born Vietnamese filmmaker, worked at various production companies and in talent representation prior to her education at AFI. She has co-produced multiple short films (This Will All Make Perfect Sense Some Day, Butch Blossom, and Challenge) and has worked as art director, 1st AD, and script supervisor, as well as camera operator on shorts such as You’ve Got Male and The Fort.

Nadine’s directorial credits include Chopsticks, The Muse, One Never Knows, In the Dark, Initiation, Eggbaby, and Shadow Man. She was one of eight recipients of the “Armed with A Camera” grant under the Visual Communications for Asian Pacific fellowship program in 2006. During her first year at AFI, Nadine was appointed the representative of the Directing Fellows on the Fellow Advisory Committee. She is also the proud recipient of the Mary Pickford Endowed Scholarship of 2009. Nadine received her BA degree in Anthropology from UCLA in 2003.

Tuan Tran

At nineteen, Tuan Tran went off to college in Santa Barbara to study theater Arts and continued on to UCLA where he worked on his Master’s Degree in acting. He has found himself on both sides of the camera, acting in supporting roles in Heaven and Earth (1993), Rules of Engagement (2003), and Green Dragon (2001). He has also appeared on TV shows like The X-Files, Pacific Blue, and Streets of Berlin, a German TV series. As a producer, Tran has worked notably on an award-winning short called, Banana Nut Bread Toy (20D3), an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, and the feature film Bastards (1999) about two Amerasian brothers looking for their father. Before Finding Madison. Tran directed Monk (2002) and Wonderful Tonight (2002), two short films that have appeared in festivals in San Francisco, Chicago, San Diego, Hawaii, and the Philippines. These accomplishments have culminated in earning forTran a prestigious director’s mentorship with FIND’s”Project: lnvolve.”

Tonaci Tran

Tonaci Tran is a digital filmmaker who co-founded Tonaci Digital with producer Thuy Huynh. He graduated from UCSD’s Extension Digital Art Center Program and directed his first music video, Thai: My Life and Rhymes, in 2006. With Thai’s powerful lyrics, Slim’s raw and melodic beats, and Tonaci’s filmic visuals, this music video represents a stunning and unique collaboration amongst three talented Vietnamese Americans.

Tran Phuong Thao

Tran Phuong Thao graduated from Ha Noi’s College of Foreign Trade. She received a Bachelor’s degree from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and a Master’s degree in Documentary filmmaking in Poitier, France. Tran has directed 3 short documentaries: Women’s Affairs for the Women’s Associate of Poitier; A Hazard, submitted to the 5-Continent Film Festival 5/5, produced by the Belgian production company, Dragon Film Co.; and A Letter to Dad, her senior’s thesis film for the DESS in Poitier.

Ham Tran

Born in Sai Gon, Ham Tran immigrated to America with his parents through the Orderly Departure Program in 1982. His explorations in playwriting, prose, poetry, music, drawing, painting, film and video became a journey to assemble new and lost history and culture. Ham graduated from UCLA with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film and Television, where his short films have won numerous accolades, including the title of National Finalist for the Student Academy Awards for 2 years in a row for his short films, The Prescription and Pomegranate. Ham’s thesis film The Anniversary won over 30 international awards, including the prestigious USA Film Festival award for Best Short Film. In 2004, The Anniversary was a Semi-Finalist for the Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short. Ham’s feature debut, Journey from the Fall, world-premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and has garnered over ten awards in worldwide film festivals. Imaginasian Entertainment releases the film theatrically in Spring 2007.

James T Ngo

James T Ngo was born in Da Hang, Viet Ham in 1984. James and his family migrated to the U.S. when he was 14 years old. From an early age, he was interested in becoming a director. His dream came true when his father bought him a camcorder. James attended California State University in Los Angeles and majored in film. James made his first music video Neu Mat Ngay in 2003 and was awarded the title Director of Photography by his professor. He is currently working on a film called Vengeance.

Siu Ta

Siu is an actor and filmmaker. As an actor she was a series regular on This is Wonderland (CBC) and The Best Years (Global, the N). Other film/TV credits include Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, The Art of Woo and Leap Years. Her directorial debut Urge (10 min., 16mm, 2000) screened in twenty-five film festivals worldwide. Her second short Kata Practice (5 min., 16mm, 2004) screened in fifty international film festivals, won a number of awards and broadcasts on CBC’s Canadian Reflections. In 2006 she was selected to take part in the NFB’s Momentum Program to direct her documentary short Cut & Dry (12 min.).

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