Rooftop Lempicka

Hang Luong Nguyen (aka Nguyễn Lương Hằng) is an award-winning writer-director and producer from Ho Chi Minh City who is interested in exploring the Vietnamese female identity in global and familial contexts. Her debut short THE STORY OF US (2014) screened at the 2016 Focus on Asia Fukuoka FF. She then served as producer for Trinh Dinh Le Minh's acclaimed debut feature GOODBYE MOTHER (2019), one of the first LGBTQ films from Vietnam to participate in the international cinematic scene, selected by prestigious festivals in Busan, Hawaii, and Toronto before its distribution on Netflix in Vietnam. Her sophomore short SUPERMARKET AFFAIRS (2023) screened at Palm Springs ShortFest, Nashville FF, and Osaka Asian FF among others, winning several awards. She received an MFA in Film & Media Production at the University of Texas at Austin with support from the Fulbright Program. Her thesis ROOFTOP LEMPICKA received the 2022 Grant for Short Films from the Austin Film Society founded by director Richard Linklater. The feature project of the same name is in development and a 2023 AFS Grant for Feature Films recipient, has been selected for the Munich Film Up! residential program and Full Circle Lab Philippines. She is also an alumna of Singapore IFF's Southeast Asian Film Lab, Locarno Open Doors Lab, EAVE Ties That Bind, and Venice Film Festival's Biennale College Cinema.