Derek Nguyen, the award-winning writer, director and producer behind horror-romance ‘The Housemaid’ (Cô Hầu Gái), has signed with Cinetic Media for management
Nguyen was a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Lab, there workshopping the screenplay adaptation of his play,The Potential Wives of Norman Mao
, narrated by George Takei, screened at LA Shorts Fest and the Asian American International Film Festival, among other festivals. Nguyen recently won a grant from Starfish—a hybrid social enterprise investing in ideas from BIPOC creators—to develop, a crime mystery series to be released on the upcoming Lunar New Year in podcast form.
The series, which Nguyen is also developing for television, is inspired by true events. It picks up after two Vietnamese American teen boys are murdered outside New Orleans in the 1980s, watching as two FBI agents hunt for the malicious killer in a bayou town ripped apart by a race war between Vietnamese refugees and local fishing laborers.
John Sloss founded Cinetic Media in 2001. The company also represents filmmakers including Richard Linklater, David Gordon Green, Todd Haynes, the teams at Killer Films and World of Wonder, Alexander Nanau, Matthew Heineman, Yance Ford, Lana Wilson and Janus Metz. Its other services include content sales, financing, marketing and publicity, as well as corporate advisory.
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