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.
FLY FILMMAKING CHALLENGE 2009
SIFF
Come see this year’s crop of adventuresome filmmakers! Celebrating it’s noirish 13th year, The Fly Filmmaking Challenge gives local filmmakers 5 days to write, 5 days to shoot and 5 days to edit a short film – and the results are always amazing. This year includes Black Coffee, a modern-day film noir that stars Yuji Okumoto, Melissa Roberts, and Nina Carduner. The show are on Monday May 25, at 4:00PM, and Wednesday June 10, and 4:00PM at the Egyptian Theatre.
