The Stand
The Stand
The Stand
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When her mother is forced to leave their family’s bustling food stand, a determined immigrant girl must team up with her pesky kid brother to keep things running — and earn enough to give their mom a rare night off to attend her choir concert.
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Oanh-Nhi Nguyen
Oanh-Nhi Nguyen is an award-winning filmmaker whose decade-long commitment to gender and racial justice drives her storytelling. Through her lens, she amplifies Asian women and girls, weaving narratives that explore diaspora, immigrant identity, and the complex bonds between generations.
An AFI Conservatory MFA graduate, Oanh-Nhi has directed ten narrative shorts and documentary episodes that have reached audiences from the Smithsonian American Art Museum to festival circuits nationwide. Her acclaimed short "LITTLE BIRD" captured the Jury Award for Best Student Short at Cinequest 2025 and earned a Remi Award at WorldFest Houston, following its premiere at AFI Fest. Her work has also been showcased at CAAM Fest, Boston Asian American Film Festival, Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, and Viet Film Fest.
Recognition from industry leaders includes her selection for Tribeca's 2024 Creators Market, where she pitched to top professionals, alongside acceptance of her comedy pilot "UNACCEPTABLE" into the Athena's Writers Lab and her docuseries debut "TAKING ROOT" into the 2023 Tribeca Festival.