Linh Dan Nguyen Phan was born in 1996 into an artistic family. After graduating from New York University, she returned to Vietnam to make films. Her first film project is If Wood Could Cry, It Would Cry Blood, which won the Asian Project Market award at the 2021 Busan Film Festival. Previously, the short film Lost directed by Nguyen Phan Linh Dan was selected to attend the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in the Short Film category. One year later, the short film Vo Dien co-written by Linh Dan was awarded the Golden Kite Award by the Vietnam Cinema Association. She was also worked as a DOP in this project. Linh Dan grew up in between the Vietnamese and French culture and now works in NYC and Vietnam. Art for her is the emergency exit to freedom in the political context of her home country. As a filmmaker and aspiring pilot, she aims for her work to be the B-52 of her revolution. Dan has a BFA in Film and TV Production at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and a Studio Arts minor at NYU Steinhardt. As a Director of Photography, Linh Dan received funds from Panavision, one of the world's leading professional movie camera companies. She is one of the only female D.O.P working in Vietnam. She has won major awards like: L'OFFICIEL Vietnam - Women of our Time, ARTE Kino International Prize, New York Foundation of Arts - Made in NY Grant Recipient 2019, Russell Hexter Filmmaker Fund Recipient 2019, Todd Phillips Film Production Award 2019, "Best Short" - Golden Kite Award 2018, Sundance Film Festival - Horizon Award Finalist 2019, A.P.A STARR Fund Recipient 2018, etc
