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Đoan Hóang (née Hoàng Niên Thuc- Đoan) is an award-winning producer, director, and writer of films, heading her own production company, Nuoc Pictures.  She was born in the Republic of South Vietnam to a South Vietnamese Air Force major from Saigon and a Mekong Delta socialite.  Raised in Kentucky, Hoang wrote her first book about the Vietnam War at age 9 and made her first documentary film about war at the age of 12.  A graduate of Smith College, Hoang spent years as an editor and writer, working for national magazines such as Details, House & Garden, Spin, and Saveur.  

Oh, Saigon was a seven-year project, funded by the Sundance Institute, ITVS, the Center for Asian American Media, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Feature Film at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Best Feature Documentary & Best Brooklyn Film at the Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival.  The film has been internationally screened in major cities in 10 countries and 5 continents, translated into seven languages, televised on PBS and on-demand, streamed on Netflix, Amazon, Roku, TubiTV and IMDB-TV.

Some of her producing and directing credits include Agent, American Geisha, Good Morning Captains, Hard Times, On the Trail of Ho & A Requiem. She has consulted on numerous documentaries, including Oscar-nominated If A Tree Falls (Marshall Curry & Sam Cullman), Geeta Patel & Senain Kesingi’s Project Kashmir, Legacy of Denial by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, and Adele Pham & Adele Ray’s Nailed It.  She is currently making a follow-up to Oh, Saigon, about the women, rape and war called Scars For Eyes, and writing a biographical novel.

SCARS FOR EYES, Documentary Feature, In Progress
About women in the same family who all, unbeknownst to them, share similar horrible secrets.

ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET, Music video, 2013
A colorful, fun music video for pop artist Emily Newhouse about her internet addiction.

DORITOHOLICS ANONYMOUS - Commercial, 2013
An addicted young man goes to his first Doritholics Anonymous meeting.

FOOLED HIM, and 1, 2, 3Co-director & Eiditor - Music videos by Will Lee of the Paul Schaeffer Band of the Late Show with David Letterman and the Fab Faux.

HARD TIMES – Narrative, 2012
A producer gets the tables turned on him by an actress. Exec. Produced by Billy “Silver Dollar” Baxter (Dawn of the Dead). Co-director, co-producer, co-screenwriter.

AGENT - Documentary, 20 min. - 2002
About a former CIA agent enamored of war, and his wife and children, who were affected by his violence and inability to live in peacetime.

NUOC - Narrative, 2000
Examines the meaning of the Vietnamese words, nu’ó’c (water, tide, country) and tiê ́ng (language, sound, voice) with beautiful images of the Mekong River as small trickle to a river going out to sea, inhabited like a city on water yet resonating war.

GOOD MORNING, CAPTAINS - Narrative, 1994
About a car accident between two disaffected Gen-Xers.

HOW NOT TO MAKE A VIDEO – Narrative, 1994
A 20-minute comedic short about the foibles of videomaking.

VEGETABLE REQUIEM – Narrative, 1993
A comedic short about the massacre of vegetables by a scary 1950s homemaker.

FRENCH REVOLUTION – Docudrama, 40 min, 1986, About the French Royal Family as they were being overthrown by the French Revolution.