Director

Minh Nguyen-Vo

Directing

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 3

TMDB ID: 1118440

IMDb ID: nm0629151

Known for: Directing

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2004 - 2014

Years active: 11

Wikidata: Q6864881

Also known as

Nguyễn-Võ Nghiêm-Minh

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Biography

Nguyễn Võ Nghiêm Minh (b. 1956), or Minh Nguyen-Vo, is a Vietnamese-American director and former physicist. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1956, he grew up in a small Vietnamese town during the war. After emigrating to France, he studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Poitiers. He then moved to the USA where he took a doctorate in Physics at UCLA. For many years he researched the interaction between light and sound before returning to UCLA to study screenwriting and directing, which he completed in 1998. His directing debut Buffalo Boy (2004) screened at festivals including Toronto, Locarno and Busan and won numerous international awards.

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