Born in 1984, Son Doan began working on film sets in 2012 after studying cinematography at INSAS in Brussels. In 2017, he shot Meryem Ben m’Barek’s debut feature Sofia, which won the Best Script Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018.
He has worked on various shorts and features and has collaborated with Thuy Han Nguyen Chi on several experimental films, a process that made him explore different ways to tell stories.
While preparing for a shoot in Vietnam, he met Truong Minh Quy in Ho Chi Minh City, and they started working together on a dreamy 16mm film titled The Tree House.
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