Untitled Tai Look Project

Currently in production in New York, NY

“Tai Look“ is a film following a multigenerational lion dance troupe during Chinese New Year in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Centered on leader Patrick Mock, the film explores cultural inheritance and survival amidst a rapidly changing neighborhood.

Writer & Director 

Horatio Nguyen 

Chưa Chết, Mà

Saigon, Vietnam. 2026. 7’

Members of a funeral brass band in Saigon reflect on their intimate proximity to death.

Writer & Director 

Horatio Nguyen

Cinematographer

Horatio Nguyen

Editor

Horatio Nguyen

Screenings

2026 New Orleans Film Festival. New Orleans, LA
2026 Viet Film Fest. Santa Ana, CA
2026 Rooftop Films Summer Series. New York, NY

True Love in Pueblo Textil

Pueblo Textil, Cuba. 2017. 5’

A nine-year-old schoolgirl in a small rural town explains how it feels to be stricken with the world's oldest infliction: love.

Writer & Director

Horatio Nguyen

Produced by

Black Factory Cinema

Guidance from

Werner Herzog

Screenings

2020 PBS POV Season 33, national broadcast
2019 The Atlantic, curated online presentation
2019 Rooftop Films. New York, NY
2019 Booooooom TV, curated online presentation
2018 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. Oberhausen, Germany
2018 LA Film Festival. Los Angeles, CA
2018 SF DocFest. San Francisco, CA
2018 Aesthetica Film Festival. York, England
2018 DC Shorts. Washington, DC
2018 DOC NYC, Neon Short Award. New York, NY
2018 Florida Film Festival. Orlando, FL
2018 Kansas City Film Festival, Best Documentary Short. Kansas City, MO
2018 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. Havana, Cuba
2018 Slamdance Film Festival. Park City, UT
2017 Doc Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wagner’s

Select Scene. New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018

Two estranged friends reunite hoping to recover a fraught relationship. When conversation fails them, a visit to a neighborhood convenience store reveals the one thing they still have in common.

Director

Horatio Nguyen

Writers

Horatio Nguyen
Chris Acker
Sam Gelband

Starring

Sam Gelband & Chris Acker

May Gray, June Gloom

Los Angeles, California. 2020. 3’

It feels as if the world has been turned upside down. The sun doesn't shine anymore, it just goes through the motions like a goddamn traffic light. And every day is the same day but with a different name tag and "tomorrow" might as well be next week or next month or next year.

Director

Horatio Nguyen

Sound

Lord Youth

Screenings

2020 Vimeo Staff Pick
2020 Film Shortage Short Pick
2020 Booooooom TV Awards