Kim-Hong Nguyen

Nguyen is a new immigrant in Taiwan from Vietnam. She was raised in rural countryside and was unable to complete elementary education due to poverty. In 2000, she was married to a man in Taiwan through a marriage agency, divorced in 2008 because she experienced domestic violence. She raised her daughter by herself since then. She was remarried in 2009 and started to volunteer with communities of new immigrants. Kim-Hong Nguyen won the first prize twice in the Beauty of New Immigrants Photo Contest and started to shoot documentaries since then. She received the grant from the 2010 Cloud gate Wanderer Project and another grant from the National Culture and Arts Foundation in 2011 to shoot her family story and other Vietnam sisters who experienced divorce. Out/Marriage is her first documentary and was nominated as Best Documentary in both Taipei Film Festival and South Taiwan Film Festival. It won the Best Newcomer Award of the South Taiwan Film Festival.