Thanh Hoang is from Vietnam. Prior entering the MFA Film Program at City College of New York, she worked in broadcast journalism, advertising, NGOs and as an independent filmaker. She is interested in telling stories about people who struggle because of their race, gender, class, or religion. She believes a story that possesses conflict and is deeply understood through sympathetic observation would bring into question the judgmental society crafted by mainstream media. She works in between fiction and non-fiction.