NO CRYING AT THE DINNER TABLE

SPECIAL FILMMAKER CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR CAROL NGUYEN 

AND AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER ALEXANDRIA BOMBACH

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Director Carol Nguyen (NO CRYING AT THE DINNER TABLE) 

In Conversation with Filmmaker Alexandria Bombach

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Thursday, December 14th at 6 PM PST/ 9 PM EST

About NO CRYING AT THE DINNER TABLE

In this cathartic documentary about things left unsaid, filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets.

About Carol Nguyen

Carol Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto and Montreal. Her films often explore the subjects of cultural identity, family and memory. Her most recent film “No Crying at the Dinner Table” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and had its international premiere at IDFA 2019, where she was also invited as the Opening Night speaker. It also received the Jury Prize for Short Documentary at SXSW. Carol is a 2018 Sundance Ignite fellow, Adobe Creativity Scholar and a TIFF Share Her Journey ambassador, where she strives to empower diverse voices and women through her own stories and personal experiences in the film industry. Today, Carol is working towards developing her first documentary feature as well as an animated short.

About Alexandria Bombach

Alexandria Bombach is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and editor from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her recent film ON HER SHOULDERS (2018) won Best Directing in the US Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards, and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Her documentary FRAME BY FRAME, about Afghan photojournalists, premiered at SXSW in 2015 and went on to win over 25 film festival awards.