Seattle Magazine
Tran’s critically acclaimed, award-winning short film, Bookie, screened at 22 film festivals over 18 months, including the 2008 Seattle International Film Festival—an impressive achievement for any independent filmmaker, much less for someone in the beginning of his career who has never attended film school. In 2009, SIFF chose Tran as one of four local filmmakers to participate in the annual Fly Filmmaking challenge, in which participants have three months to make a movie from a script pulled out of a hat. His 10-minute short Black Coffee took a standard love-triangle-with-a-twist and transformed it into a beautifully shot, original story. Check out the article profiling Tran by following the link.