Thuc Doan Nguyen

Thuc Doan Nguyen

Thuc Nguyen in Downtown Los Angeles 2015
Born Thuc Doan Nguyen
Vietnam
Residence Downtown Los Angeles, California
Citizenship Dual EU and US
Alma mater University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Occupation Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Film Producer
Years active 2003 – present
Known for The Bitch Pack
Home town Port Tobacco, MD / Kinston, NC

Thuc Doan Nguyen is a Los Angeles-based writer and producer. She was born in Vietnam, and grew up in North Carolina and Southern Maryland. She is a double major from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy. Nguyen is the founder of "The Bitch Pack",[1] a group dedicated to promoting female-driven screenplays through Twitter and other social media sites.

Career

For Nguyen's work in Hollywood, she has been featured in The Rumpus,[2] The Huffington Post's Entertainment Section.[3] Her historical drama screenplay about Lucy Parsons and Albert Parsons & The Haymarket Affair is number one in IndieWire's "Not All Stories Are About Straight White Men".[4][5]

Nguyen helped launch the first ever "Cause Related Marketing Department" at Saatchi & Saatchi London for Marjorie Ellis Thompson and Hamish Pringle, aiding them with the book Brand Spirit.[6]

Nguyen has published academically. She presented at The University of London with her paper: "Of Cougars and Kittens in Vampire Visual Rhetoric of the Last 30 Years: Ageism, Sexuality, Conformity and Ethics in Relation to Contemporary Fictional Female Vampires in Film & Television". Paper Proposal Accepted by The London Consortium, by Dr. Simon Bacon.[7] She has also penned a piece for the book Race/Gender/Class/Media.[8]

In New York City, Nguyen has worked with Kevin McLeod aka Mstrmnd on a series of interactive projects and online games for Atomic Pictures, as an associate producer for the web game "The Beast". Thuc is the voice of Cybertronics and Eliza in Eliza's Tea Room. They also made web sites for groups such as The Service Employees International Union. She also worked for other integrated entertainment companies.

Nguyen produced the documentary "Goth Parking Lot" [9] at The Cure's Jones Beach Dream Tour show, as encouraged by the makers of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, fellow Marylanders.

In Los Angeles, Nguyen worked for Jerry Bruckheimer and Warner Brothers Television as a writers' and executive producers' assistant. Nguyen made up dialogue as Fredrik Bond's "Milkmaid": Creative Annual UK – Best Campaign – Bronze for MJZ.[10] She has a screenwriting certificate from UCLA, and was a translator for the Rory Kennedy Academy Award-nominated documentary Last Days in Vietnam.[11]

Nguyen's work can be found in various publications. The Los Angeles Times published an essay by Nguyen about modern love.[12] Nguyen's magazine writing work has included: Sweet Action, Useless, Working Class (all New York City indie magazines), Urb and BPM (international music magazines) about popular culture, filmmakers, internet dating, Ima Robot, Moving Units, etc.. Nguyen's also written for Nylon magazine's Beauty Diary about Sting's yoga guru, Ganga White.

Thanks to women such as Amanda de Cadenet and Sam Taylor-Johnson, Nguyen's photography work has been featured in their Girl Gaze Project (as @paidtobenice on Instagram).[13]

Nguyen is active in political satire as an organizer for The Satanic Temple.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "The Bitch Pack". The Bitch Pack. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  2. ↑ http://therumpus.net/topics/thuc-nguyen/
  3. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/movies-that-arent-remakes_us_56965e92e4b09dbb4bad5a3e
  4. ↑ http://www.indiewire.com/2014/07/not-all-stories-are-about-straight-white-men-heres-12-films-that-could-make-money-and-bring-diversity-to-the-big-screen-213865/
  5. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6137384/
  6. ↑ Pringle, Hamish; Thompson, Marjorie (2011). Brand Spirit: How Cause Related Marketing Builds Brands. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. pp. xi–xii. ISBN 0-471-98776-X.
  7. ↑ https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=177736
  8. ↑ http://www.mypearsonstore.com/bookstore/race-gender-class-media-subscription-0205930336
  9. ↑ http://gothparkinglot.bryceward.com/
  10. ↑ http://www.mjz.com/directors/fredrik-bond-us/awards/
  11. ↑ "'Last Days in Vietnam': Cast & Crew". PBS. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  12. ↑ http://www.latimes.com/home/la-hm-0430-affairs-20160430-story.html
  13. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BEKgKTAMcd8/?taken-by=girlgazeproject&hl=en
  14. ↑ http://www.laweekly.com/news/satanists-plan-to-celebrate-6-6-16-in-la-6963630
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