Lana Nguyen is a 27-year-old Vietnamese-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. In 2021, she graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts with a BFA in Film & Television Production and a minor in the Entertainment Industry, where she was recognized as both a Jon M. Chu APAA Scholar and a Cohen Scholar.

Lana started making films when she was 10 years old (with her cousins and dog, Clara!) and has carried that love forward ever since. She gravitates towards character-driven stories in the genre space and coming of age narratives. Most recently, she wrote and directed the dystopian adventure short film TALL TALES, which was executive produced by Kelly Marie Tran (STAR WARS) and starred Madeleine Yuna Voyles (THE CREATOR).

Prior to that, she attended the Kino Guarimba Filmmaking residency in Amantea, Italy, where she made a guerilla style short starring local talent. In school, she directed the USC senior thesis film MONSTERS OF MINE — a multimedia, stop motion animated project (due COVID restrictions). It won Best Animation Film at First Look and the Audience Favorite Award at Florida Animation Festival. Her junior thesis film FRESH PEACHES — A dramatic short exploring her Vietnamese-American heritage —screened at various festivals and won the Goldman Sachs “Rewrite the Script” category at Campus Movie Fest 2021.

In addition to her own personal projects, Lana has extensive industry experience, having worked as an assistant Hello Sunshine and Columbia Pictures. At Hello Sunshine, she assisted producers on Amazon Studios' YOU'RE CORDIALLY INVITED and AppleTV+’s THE MORNING SHOW. Right now, she works as an Executive Assistant in Physical Production at HBO / HBO MAX.

She can be reached at lananguyenfilm@gmail.com.