Diana CAM VAN NGUYEN

Diana Cam Van Nguyen is a Czech-Vietnamese director, born in 1993 in Czech Republic. Based in Prague, she’s graduated from FAMU – Department of Animated Films. Her short films have been selected at festivals like Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, Annecy or IDFA. Apart (2018) was a finalist in BAFTA Student Film Award 2019. Her latest short Love, Dad (2021) was nominated for Best Short Film in European Film Awards 2022 and won more than 70 awards from international festivals including BFI Short Film Award, Clermont-Ferrand Connexion Award, AFI Grand Jury Award, Toronto Honorable Mention. In her short films she focused on personal topics through the means of animated documentary. Currently she is developing her first feature Inbetween Worlds at the Résidence of the Festival de Cannes, a fiction film which combines live-action and animation.