Kim Nguyen
Kim Nguyen is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film War Witch which received numerous honours including an Academy Awards nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Early life
Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec to a Vietnamese father and a French-Canadian mother, he is a 1997 graduate of Concordia University in Montreal, having earned a BFA. His knowledge of computer-assisted image manipulation was deepened while he taught cinematographic language and screenwriting at the Institut de création artistique et de recherche en infographie and Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Montréal.Career
Kim has directed a number of feature films including War Witch, Eye on Juliet and The Hummingbird Project. For War Witch, the film was the top winner at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, in addition to being named Best Picture and winning acting awards for two of its stars, Nguyen himself won the awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, which also earned him an Academy Awards nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Following War Witch, Kim Nguyen was one of 276 new members invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2019 he was the patron and curator of the Festival Vues dans la tête de... film festival in Rivière-du-Loup.In 2025 he was announced as entering production on Le Sablier, an adaptation of Édith Blais's non-fiction book about her experience being captured and held hostage by Islamist terrorists while travelling in Burkina Faso.