ABOUT ME
Carol Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal. Her films often explore the subjects of cultural identity, family and silence. Carol just finished her first feature documentary, “Still Night, Burning House”, which is set to premiere at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. Prior to that, her short film “Nanitic” (2022) was selected for Berlinale Generation Kplus and at TIFF where it received the “IMDbProShort Cuts Share Her Journey Award”. Her short film “No Crying at the Dinner Table” (2019) also screened at TIFF alongside International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and South by Southwest where it received the “Jury Prize for Short Documentary”. Carol is a 2018 Sundance Ignite fellow and an Adobe Creativity Scholar. Today, Carol is writing and directing several projects, including two feature films as well as a short satirical thriller.