Richard Van
Filmmaker & Educator
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About
Richard Van is a San Francisco-based filmmaker of Vietnamese descent. One of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, Richard works both in fiction and documentary often looking at familial interactions within different cultural contexts and dealing with issues of memory, masculinity, childhood, and representation.
He holds an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts as well as a BA in Philosophy from University of California, Berkeleyand is currently serving on the board of directors for the Southeast Asian Development Center in San Francisco.
His CalArts thesis film HIẾU, a comedy-drama about a dysfunctional Vietnamese-American family, premiered at the 2019 Festival de Cannes for its Cinéfondation Selection where it won Deuxième Prix.
Experience
Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Producer, Educator
Education
MFA Film Directing from California Institute of the Arts
