ABOUT
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GIAO NGUYEN is a Vietnamese-American director, photographer, and award-winning filmmaker based in Seattle.
A graduate of Seattle Pacific University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance and a minor in Studio Art: Digital Media - he specializes in direction of film and performance through mixed media formats. His artistic compass combines visceral dialogue with heightened images that immerses audiences into the (non) fiction moments of the human experience. Across film and photography, his work has been featured in The Telegraph, The Seattle Times, The Telegraph, BroadwayWorld, The Jimmy Awards, The Sound on Stage, and others.
Selected film work includes short-film series The Mesmerism (2023), documentaries Unseen Cualtzin (2019) and Loud & with Feeling (2024) , and his first feature film: Ocean’s Arrival (2022) which won Best Feature Film at the 2022 West Sound Film Festival. Currently, he is in post-production for his debut feature, Inferno, coming 2026.
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