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Kim Nguyen
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Nguyen in 2013
Born
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Occupationfilm director
Known forWar Witch (Rebelle)

Kim Nguyen is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film War Witch (Rebelle).[1] The film was the top winner at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards;[2] in addition to being named Best Picture and winning acting awards for two of its stars, Nguyen himself won the awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.[2]

Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec to a Vietnamese father and a French-Canadian mother,[3] Nguyen has directed a number of feature films to date including War Witch (also known by the French title Rebelle) in 2012 and Eye on Juliet in 2017.

He is a 1997 graduate of Concordia University in Montreal, having earned a BFA.[4]

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Canadians

Canadians

Canadians are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Canadian.

War Witch

War Witch

War Witch is a 2012 Canadian dramatic war film written and directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien and Serge Kanyinda. It is about a child soldier forced into a civil war in Africa, and who is believed to be a witch. The film was primarily shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in French and Lingala.

1st Canadian Screen Awards

1st Canadian Screen Awards

The 1st Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 3, 2013, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2012. This was the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards ceremony, following the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's decision, announced in 2012, to merge its formerly separate Genie Awards and Gemini Awards into a single ceremony. In addition, the Canadian Screen Awards include awards for achievements in digital media.

Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture

Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Motion Picture to the best Canadian film of the year.

Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is the second most populous city in Canada and the most populous city in the province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is 196 km (122 mi) east of the national capital Ottawa, and 258 km (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.

Quebec

Quebec

Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States.

Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam or Viet Nam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is located at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of 311,699 square kilometres (120,348 sq mi) and population of 96 million, making it the world's sixteenth-most populous country. Vietnam borders China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its capital is Hanoi and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City.

Eye on Juliet

Eye on Juliet

Eye on Juliet is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kim Nguyen and released in 2017. The film had its world premiere in the Venice Days program of the 74th Venice International Film Festival, and its North American premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.

Concordia University

Concordia University

Concordia University is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the three universities in Quebec where English is the primary language of instruction. As of the 2020–21 academic year, there were 51,253 students enrolled in credit courses at Concordia, making the university among the largest in Canada by enrollment. The university has two campuses, set approximately 7 kilometres apart: Sir George Williams Campus is the main campus, located in the Quartier Concordia neighbourhood of Downtown Montreal in the borough of Ville Marie; and Loyola Campus in the residential district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. With four faculties, a school of graduate studies and numerous colleges, centres and institutes, Concordia offers over 400 undergraduate and 200 graduate programs and courses.

Filmography

Feature films

Others

  • Soleil glacé (2000, short)
  • The Glove (2004, short)
  • La chambre no. 13 (2006, television)
  • Le Nez (2014)
  • Bellevue (2017, director: 2 episodes)
  • American Auto (2022, director: "The $10k Car")

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The Marsh (2002 film)

The Marsh (2002 film)

The Marsh is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kim Nguyen and released in 2002. Set in Eastern Europe during the 19th century, the film stars Gregory Hlady and Paul Ahmarani as Alexandre and Ulysse, two social outcasts who settle on a haunted marsh on the outskirts of a village, but become wrongly suspected of criminal wrongdoing after a woman from the village disappears.

City of Shadows (2010 film)

City of Shadows (2010 film)

City of Shadows is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kim Nguyen and released in 2010. Partially inspired by but not a direct adaptation of Albert Camus's novel The Plague, the film stars Jean-Marc Barr as Maxime Vincent, a war doctor serving in North Africa who comes across a city dealing with an outbreak of bubonic plague.

War Witch

War Witch

War Witch is a 2012 Canadian dramatic war film written and directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien and Serge Kanyinda. It is about a child soldier forced into a civil war in Africa, and who is believed to be a witch. The film was primarily shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in French and Lingala.

Two Lovers and a Bear

Two Lovers and a Bear

Two Lovers and a Bear is a 2016 Canadian drama film written and directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Tatiana Maslany and Dane DeHaan. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released on 7 October 2016, by Entertainment One. It is Gordon Pinsent's final feature film.

Eye on Juliet

Eye on Juliet

Eye on Juliet is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kim Nguyen and released in 2017. The film had its world premiere in the Venice Days program of the 74th Venice International Film Festival, and its North American premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.

The Hummingbird Project

The Hummingbird Project

The Hummingbird Project is a 2018 thriller drama film about high-frequency trading and ultra-low latency direct market access, written and directed by Kim Nguyen produced by Pierre Even at Item 7. It stars Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Mando, Sarah Goldberg, and Salma Hayek.

Bellevue (TV series)

Bellevue (TV series)

Bellevue is a Canadian television crime drama series, it premiered on CBC Television on February 20, 2017. Created by Jane Maggs and Adrienne Mitchell, the series stars Anna Paquin as Annie Ryder, a police officer investigating the disappearance of a transgender teen while also dealing with the return of a mysterious person from her past.

American Auto

American Auto

American Auto is an American television sitcom created by Justin Spitzer that premiered on NBC on December 13, 2021. In May 2022, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on January 24, 2023.

Source: "Kim Nguyen", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, February 20th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Nguyen.

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References
  1. ^ "Oscars 2013: Montreal director Kim Nguyen steps closer to Oscar glory". Toronto Star, December 22, 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Canadian Screen Awards raises the star wattage". Toronto Star, March 3, 2013.
  3. ^ "Kim Nguyen nous parle de «Rebelle»". Première Chaîne, May 11, 2012.
  4. ^ "Yes he Cannes! Concordian heads to film festival". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
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