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Finest Artists 2024: Nông Nhật Quang

Posted on 04/05/2024

Nông Nhật Quang

Year of birth: 1997

Field: Film

About the artist: Nông Nhật Quang is a documentary filmmaker. He started out making short documentaries on queer experience, creative industry, youth culture and heritage for British Council Vietnam, GagaOOLala (Taiwan) and United Subversive (Singapore).

Remarkable activities/projects in 2023 – 2024: His first feature debut “Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava” is in production and received support from Purin Pictures and Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) in 2023. In June 2023, Quang submitted this project to the EBS International Documentary Festival (EIDF) of the South Korean Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) and won the Excellent Prize – K-Pitch Prime. Prior to that, in February 2023, Quang attended Big Sky Documentary Film Festival – Montana and was a panelist in the workshop on global documentary filmmaking. In September 2023, Quang directed “Urban Interpretation: Muntadas in Hanoi” which was included in the 13th European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival. In October 2023, Quang was one of the filmmakers selected for the Sundance Institute Scholar/American Film Showcase Fellowship. Then, in November 2023, Quang participated in the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) – The Netherlands as part of the international delegation from the American Film Showcase. In the remainder of the year, Quang served as the producer for 1 of the 3 films in the Sustainability in Documentaries project – Goethe-Institut in Hanoi.

Quang currently works as a program officer at doc cicada, a Vietnam documentary development initiative. In 2024, Quang founded duckymentary – a documentary production studio based in Hanoi.

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HANOI GRAPEVINE’s FINEST is an annual event that honors contemporary art projects in Vietnam. The event is organized and nominated by Hanoi Grapevine and the general audience.

The event aims to honor individuals, organizations, creative art projects & activities as well as artists who are 35 or younger who have made impacts on the community in order to encourage the development of local creative arts, to promote greater communication and to further spread the influence of art and culture in the community.

In an effort to give the most comprehensive and objective view, HANOI GRAPEVINE’s FINEST always offers different formats in each edition. This year, Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest 2024 is divided into two major categories: Honouring and Recognition.