ABOUT ME
Carol Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian filmmaker, born and raised in Toronto, now based in Montreal. Her films often explore the subjects of cultural identity, silence and memory. Her newest film Nanitic (2022) was selected for Berlinale Generation Kplus and at the Toronto International Film Festival where it received the “IMDbPro Short Cuts Share Her Journey Award”. Her previous film No Crying at the Dinner Table (2019) also screened at TIFF alongside IDFA and SXSW where it received the “Jury Prize for Short Documentary”. Carol is a 2018 Sundance Ignite fellow and a TIFF Share Her Journey ambassador. Recently, her project Smoke That Rises was selected for the IDFA Project Space 2022, a development lab for first and second-time directors. Today, Carol is in development for several projects including a narrative feature and an animated short.