Carol Nguyen

Carol Nguyen

Director

Carol Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal. Her films often explore the subjects of cultural identity, silence and memory. Her newest film Nanitic (2022) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was selected for Berlinale Generation Kplus 2023. Her previous film No Crying at the Dinner Table (2019) also screened at TIFF alongside IDFA, where she was additionally invited as the opening night speaker. In 2020, No Crying at the Dinner Table received the Jury Prize for Short Documentary at South by Southwest. Recently, her project The Visitors was selected for the IDFA Project Space 2022, a development lab for first/second-time directors. Today, Carol is writing and directing several projects, including two feature films as well as an animated short.

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