Welcome to Vietverse Thuc! Thuc Nguyen is a US and Irish citizen. She was born in Vietnam and has lived in London, England, New York City and Los Angeles. She's a screenwriter with a feature that was in Round 2 of Sundance Film Institute Labs 2020 about generations of Vietnamese-American women called Scent of the Delta. Her feature about The Anarchists of Chicago #1 is here: https://www.indiewire.com/2014/07/not-all-stories-are-about-straight-white-men-heres-12-films-that-could-make-money-and-bring-diversity-to-the-big-screen-213865/

She's worked for Warner Brothers and Jerry Bruckheimer Television. She's currently a contributing writer for The Daily Beast and has written for PBS, Flaunt Magazine, Nylon.com, BPM and other outlets. Thuc is the founder of The Bitch List and of #StartWith8Hollywood, both promoting creative work that centers Women of Color.

In this episode, Thuc shares her experience as a club bartender turned screenwriter and activist. She maps our the journey of creative exploration as a minority woman in the US as well as a Vietnamese artist in LA. Thuc is incredibly supportive and hopes to incite change for more diversity and inclusion in hollywood for our BIPOC communities.

Learn more about Thuc:

http://consideratecontent.com/screenwriting.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thucdoannguyen/

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