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Nguyen Martin
  • Occupation
    Director
  • Country
    Austria

Nguyen Martin

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Tomorrow You Will Leave
The story of my Vietnamese father who was able to build up a new life in a small Austrian village, but there is still an open chapter in the past: the search for the man who once helped him.

I Want To Tell You Something
"I want to tell you something" is an emotional family story. While four-year-old Oskar has been deaf since birth, his twin brother Leo's hearing is perfect. Leo is being brought up bilingual, with sign language and spoken language. The director is himself fluent in sign language, which entails to a direct and close documentation of the brother`s discoveries and learning processes. The film examines what the diagnosis 'deaf' means to Oskar's hearing parents, Sandra and Stefan. Two parents. Two different reactions.And the challenge to raise the whole family in a foreign language.

Born 23.5.1980 in Pulau Bidong, Malaysia. He lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Studied science of communication. Directed award-winning short films.“I want to tell you something” was his feature-length-debut.
I want to tell you something (2006)(director, script, cinematographer,documentary, 65 min, digital, produced by Mischief Films)Viennale 06, Diagonale 07 (special mention), Visions du Réel 07, Crossing Europe 07, Edinburgh 07At the Beginning is… (2005)(director, script, producer, short fiction, 4 min)netd@ys 05/06 – young creativity awardreally (2003)(director, script, producer, short fiction, 12 min)“shorts on screen 04” award
Shorts on Screen Award 04, netd@ays 05/06 - Young Creativity Award

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