Kim Nguyen

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]

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

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]

In 2019 he was the patron and curator of the Festival Vues dans la tête de... film festival in Rivière-du-Loup.[5]

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")

References
  1. "Oscars 2013: Montreal director Kim Nguyen steps closer to Oscar glory". Toronto Star, December 22, 2012.
  2. "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. Archived from the original on 2017-05-10. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
  5. "Première québécoise de « The Hummingbird Project » au festival Vues dans la tête de...". Lien Multimédia, February 9, 2019.


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