Carol Nguyen is a

Vietnamese Canadian Vietnamese Canadians ( vi, Người Canada gốc Việt; french: Canadiens vietnamiens) are Canadian citizens of Vietnamese ancestry. As of 2016, there are 240,615 Vietnamese Canadians, most of whom reside in the provinces of Ontario, British C ...

filmmaker. She is most noted for her films ''

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'', which was a

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nominee for Best Short Documentary at the

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award at the

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. She was named the winner of the $10,000

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for emerging filmmakers at the

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. She is a graduate of Concordia University's

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Filmography

*''Uprooted'' – 2013 *''The Cookie Thief'' – 2013 *''Rhianna's Modern'' – 2014 *''Maybe You Are'' – 2014 *''How Do You Pronounce Pho?'' – 2014 *''This Home Is Not Empty'' – 2015 *''Silent Mourners'' – 2015 *''Evergreen'' – 2016 *''Façade'' – 2016 *''Every Grain of Rice'' – 2017 *''

'' – 2019 *'' Nanitic'' – 2022

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* 21st-century Canadian screenwriters 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian documentary film directors Canadian women film directors Canadian people of Vietnamese descent Concordia University alumni Living people Asian-Canadian filmmakers Canadian writers of Asian descent Canadian women documentary filmmakers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-film-director-stub