Kim Spurlock

The Spurlock Sisters are a Vietnamese-Appalachian filmmaking duo whose films include Buoi Chieu, a Vietnamese language ghost story that premiered at Slamdance before winning the Jury Prize at the Vietnamese International Film Festival, and the Student Academy Award-winning Down in Number 5, a Southern Gothic set in coal country. Described by critics as "exquisitely filmed and heart-wrenching," Down in Number 5 won First Prize for Filmmaking at NYU, the Austin Film Festival, and many others. The Spurlocks have drawn support for their projects from The Sundance Institute, The Black List, Venice Biennale Cinema College, IFP, New York State Council on the Arts, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Cine Qua Non, and the Writer's Lab.