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Apr 17, 2020 · A woman of many talents including writing and directing comedy, Kim Nguyen does it all. Nguyen is a powerhouse behind titles you’ve probably heard of (and if you haven’t, I’m sorry, but where have you been?). She’s worked on “Fresh Off the Boat” and directed award-winning commercial works with Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Bill Hader and ...
Mar 14, 2013 · Canadian-Vietnamese filmmaker Kim Nguyen devoted a decade to crafting the story, and meeting ex-soldiers, to get himself into the mindset of a young girl forcibly enlisted into a warlord's army.
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- Le Marais
- Truffe
- La Cité
- Rebelle/War Witch
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The son of a Québécois mother and an engineer father who emigrated from Vietnam, Nguyen (pronounced “win”) pursued film studies at Concordia University and earned a master's degree in cinematography from the Université de Montréal. Fascinated with writing screenplays, he also trained as a screenwriter while developing his knowledge of standard and ...
His first full length feature, Le Marais (2002), is a fantasy fable set in a mythical European village in which two outcasts settle near a swamp haunted by devilish creatures. Nguyen and cinematographer Daniel Vincelette shot the film on 35mm and digitally added special effects in a post-production process performed in Nguyen’s basement. Though it ...
After directing an episode of the popular Radio-Canada mini-series La Chambre no 13 (2005), a thriller about a mysterious hotel room that alters the destiny of the people who stay there, Nguyen wrote, directed and produced Truffe (2008), a black comedy that satirizes global warming and contemporary consumer society. A kind of love letter to 1950s B...
Nguyen followed this with La Cité (2010), an ambitious historical adventure set in late-19th century Africa about a doctor (French star Jean-Marc Barr) who tries to save a village stricken by madness and the plague. Working with his biggest budget to date, Nguyen shot the film in early 2008, only to see it shelved by Christal Films due to the compa...
Shot in the Democratic Republic of Congo and released in 2012, Rebelle/War Witch follows the terrifying journey of a child soldier in sub-Saharan Africa as she tells her life story to her unborn child. A harrowing yet poignant film that neither sentimentalizes nor sensationalizes its subject matter, Rebelle premiered at the Berlin International Fil...
Fantastic Director (Truffe), Fantastic Fest (2009)Fresh Generation Prize (Truffe), Karlovy Vary Fresh Films Fest (2009)Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention (Rebelle), Berlin International Film Festival (2012)Audience Award (Rebelle), Cambridge Film Festival (2012)Kim Nguyen (born 1974) [1] is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film War Witch (Rebelle) which received numerous honours including an Academy Awards nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Mar 18, 2019 · The logline for Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project isn’t the sexiest: it’s about two cousins who race against time to implement a top-of-the-line fibre-optic line between New York and Kansas. There is, of course, a lot more to this film than that — but on paper, the link between high-speed fibre-optic cable and cinema isn’t that ...
Kim Nguyen was born in 1974 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is a director and writer, known for War Witch (2012).
Apr 19, 2018 · Kim Nguyen’s career has been on fire ever since the Montreal filmmaker’s African-set drama Rebelle was nominated for best foreign-language film at the 2013 Oscars. In an interview this week at a...
