Thao Dong Thi Phuong

  • Thao Dong Thi Phuong
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Film director, Producer
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Vietnamese film Producer and Producer.

Thao Dong Thi Phuong is graduated from Faculty of Literature, College of Social Science and Humanity, Ha Noi National University, she completed the cinema scripwriting course in Faculty of Arts, National University.
She completed the independent documentary film making course at the center of documentary and experimental film in Ha Noi (Doclab)

From the wish of recording the last journey of people in the family, she made her first documentary film named "Grandfather" in 2012. This film has caught the attention and become the first Viet Nam documentary film to attend international documentary film festival IDFA. It was screened in the category "Voice of Southest Asia". Besides, it is also screened in many film festivals around the world.

After that, she has shaped and continued to find a suitable telling way for documentary film. It has been maintaining by telling short stories through short movies, such as Memorable Room (2013), Window (2013), Go Ask the Garden (2014), Talking (2014), Dissolved into Water Drops (2015), Whisper, Hide (2015). Some of these movies were invited to screened at some musemums, film festivals around Southest Asia.

The decision of leaving Ha Noi for Sai Gon, to participate with TASTE, the first independent movie of director Le Bao is a decision for long time journey and new adventurous, sharing, learning process.

She was a FeatureLab - 360 Participant 2017 (Torino Film Lab, Italy).

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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