I’m Ming.

I’m a writer, director, editor, dreamer and maker of things.

I am based in Montréal, born and bred, and am of Vietnamese and Sino-Khmer heritage. And proudly so.

After graduating Fine Arts at Central Saint-Martins College of Art and Design, my short films King Kong and Aniccam were shown in a number of festivals.

My latest short film, Nuit d’opéra cambodgien (A Night of Cambodian Opera), had its Canadian premiere at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and is presently continuing its festival run.

My debut feature, De renaître du sang et des cendres (To Be Reborn from Blood and Ashes) is currently in development after receiving funding from SODEC and CALQ. 

I am an alumnus of the TIFF Directors’ Lab.

Having said all of this, I think this would be the perfect place to mention that I have always found writing these texts to be a funny exercise in the sense that recounting my achievements (which are typically very few in an ocean of rejections) sounds like a Potemkin village and is very far from painting the whole picture. For every breakthrough, there’s usually hundreds of setbacks. I could tell you about the time I wanted to buy ramen noodles and my card got declined because I was chasing three invoices. Or how I aced my driver’s test on the first go, only to hit the parked car of my processing clerk on the centre’s parking lot on the way out. Or about the time I was at a swanky film festival and half of a front tooth fell off after biting into an overly dry hors-d’oeuvre only to be approached by the photographers who then said: “Hi Ming, we’re ready for your headshot now. Right this way.”

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to drop me a mail.