Cuong Ngo

Cuong Ngo is a Film Director who earned a BFA-Honours in Performing Arts for Theatre & Film (2002) before pursuing his second degree in Film Production at York University in Toronto, BFA-Honours (2009). Ngo is a Master Candidate in Photography & Film at Virginia Commonwealth University. Ngo has received numerous awards and nominations at International Film Festivals including the Shanghai International Film Festival's New Asian Talent award in June 20, 2012. Ngo also received the Next Generation Award for Vietnamese Innovation Visionary Award in Toronto, 2012. Ngo has directed several short films, television commercials, documentaries, music videos and feature films including The Hitchhiker Project (2008) and The Golden Pin (2009), which won Best Canadian Short at the Toronto Inside Out Film & Video Festival before touring around the world for International film festivals. Pearls of the Far East was Ngo's feature film debut as Director. Pearls Of The Far East won many awards and enjoyed a decent run on the international film festivals circuit before its theatrical release in Vietnam in March 2012. Rise (Huong Ga) was his second feature film and it was a successful hit box office in Vietnam. In 2015, Ngo directed a comedy, action fantasy, The Lost Dragon and the fourth feature was Tracer (Truy Sat) an action crime film which released in 2016 in Vietnam, Australia, Europe and Korea. Ngo currently shares his time for work between the United States, Canada, and Vietnam.